https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64463
Bug ID: 64463
Summary: Ability to subscribe for delivery to a specific page
section (replacing existing content)
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: MassMessage
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
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Users should be able to specify the number of a talk page section when
subscribing, which Massmessage then overwrites with the new content instead of
adding a new section (&action=edit§ion=x instead of action=edit§ion=new
).
This is useful for people who don't like their user talk page filling up with
old newsletter issues. It would also enable the use of MassMessage to fill the
"subscription templates" which are popular e.g. for the Signpost on enwiki (see
this and other examples at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Timeshifter/Newsletters ), just showing the
current issue of a newsletter. With the added benefit that one can choose to
watchlist that template to get notified about new issues - on the local project
too, but in a more lightweight way.
It is something we already discussed previously for EdwardsBot/Global Message
Delivery, but I haven't seen a MassMessage bug for it yet.
GiftBot, which delivers mass messages on the German Wikipedia, has been
offering such feature for a long time. One can see the format for the
subscription list at
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:GiftBot/Ausrufer&action=edit§ion=1
:
"{{/Abschnitt|1}}" there means that the bot will post on section ("Abschnitt")
1 of the given page. And the option is quite popular - right now, 52
subscribers on that list have selected it.
In practice it looks like this:
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=129279326&oldid=129055332
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