https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52723
--- Comment #39 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #37) > Is the current thinking to give users on any wiki the right to use > Special:MassMessage to spam users on any other wiki? Yes. The design idea here was that this is already possibly by any user. Anyone can open up a bunch of browser tabs and post to dozens of wikis quickly without even logging in. Or, for example, I've been posting to hundreds of wikis for years without a privileged account using only a very simple Python script. The difference here in functionality isn't very big. The primary difference is that we're adding a proper user interface for delivery submissions and reducing the need for an external dependency (a bot). > It seems to me you'd want something like: > > * Users on Meta can trigger cross-wiki notifications; > * Users on any other wiki can only trigger local notifications. This was considered and it's probably easy enough to implement these restrictions, but as I said above, I'm not sure they're necessary. My view was to take a "wait and see" approach. If local administrators begin to abuse or misuse the tool, we can always add in restrictions later. > Otherwise you end up with an audit trail mess. Having a single log in one > place and a single place to set policy around these things seems highly > desirable. Again, anyone can go around posting messages to any wiki right now without even logging in. Giving local administrators the ability to send cross-wiki messages with a simpler tool doesn't seem to warrant much concern from my perspective, but if you consider this a requirement for wider deployment, Lego can add in the restrictions. The bot currently provides an audit trail by (optionally?) appending an HTML comment containing the originating wiki, message sender's name, etc., I believe. Lego can confirm this. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
