Why not just make use of the Special:EmailUser function? Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia Account Creation Team English Wikipedia Administrator Global User Renamer
> On Feb 10, 2018, at 06:26, Martin Urbanec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > upon request at Czech Wikipedia's helpdesk I created a tool that sends > notifications about new weekly articles by e-mail together with its first > paragraph and link to it. To accomplish such a thing I need user's email, so > I firstly decided to store it in a database. To prevent this tool from > spamming I of course require its confirmation by accessing an URL with a > random string (MD5 hash of user's email and random number from 1 to 100; I > mean, those two things are in one hash). You can have a look at this tool at > tools.wmflabs.org/wiki2email/. > > My question is: Is this okay? Should I add some kind of formal information to > the tool? If so, is there some help page? Should I stop with collecting mails > at all and use some WMF-maintained service for mass-emailing (mailman at > lists.wikimedia.org maybe?) and make the tool to just send an email to the > list itself? > > This question came to my mind before creating, so I do appologize for asking > after programming. > > Best regards, > Martin Urbanec > -- > Můj kalendář najdete na https://martin.urbanec.cz/calendar.html > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
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