On 28/05/07, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon 28 May 2007 14:13:11 NZST +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> So I offer this alternative - Collaboratively edit the wiki page
> EmailListMonthlyMail, and I'll script up a job to send it to the list,
> once per month (or whatever we prefer).
I was about to offer the same scripting job. How about mailing a link to
the wiki page instead - that way, the list gets a monthly reminder, the
script doesn't have to be changed all the time, and once that's all
done, we can get into having i-can-wiki-faster-than-you competitions...
Well, I've seen some extremely long monthly messages (WellyLUG in
particular is very long), as well as short ones; quite frankly if it's
correctly identifiable, the length doesn't matter _per se_.
It's possible that the race condition of "vandalise the wiki just
before the email run" will cause issues, but I can sort that out with
a version-specific validation run for human approval; or just ignore
the problem completely because that's the deal :-)
The script only has to grab the page content, and parse it to strip
out between the --- marker and the end, so no need to do much thinking
there. PHPwiki being what it is, it may be easier to get the raw page
source from the db directly rather than from the HTTP interface
(unlike Trac, where it's easy), and in that case I can access it
easier than you can.
But ultimately, it's all good :-) If you really want to do script-fu,
go for it :-)
In any case, I'd probably subscribe a specialist user for the posting ...
-jim
