https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69953
Bug ID: 69953
Summary: Make it easier to figure out what message was sent
using MassMessage
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: MassMessage
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
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As discussed at
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Requests_for_help_from_a_sysop_or_bureaucrat&oldid=9615966#Revisiting_massmessage_rights>,
we currently maintain a log of MassMessage deliveries at (for example)
[[m:Special:Log/massmessage]].
However, this log does not currently include a link to a copy of the message
that was sent and it requires tedious manual work to cross-reference a message
delivery with its message content at the moment. The current log entry is
roughly:
---
LivingBot (talk | contribs | block) sent a message to Global message
delivery/Targets/Signpost (''The Signpost'': 20 August 2014)
---
"Global message delivery/Targets/Signpost" is a permalink to the delivery
targets/input list, but the text "a message" could also possibly be a link to a
copy of the message stored somewhere in the wiki database.
One idea is to have a page such as "Project:MassMessage archive" that gets
overwritten with each delivery, providing a record of the message that was sent
using a permalink. Or perhaps use "Project:MassMessage
archive/dated/subpage/id" as a page title format instead and don't overwrite.
Another idea is to unconditionally post the message being delivered to the
initiator's talk page, which would also provide a usable permalink.
One consideration here is that it may be possible in the future to send
multiple versions or variants of a message at once, so creating a snapshot of
the message(s) being sent may become more complex in the future. I'm thinking
of translated messages in particular.
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