Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Niklas Laxström <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> Solution 2: >> Use the api.php to post to the user talk page. >> * Has lots of failure cases: >> ** Connection error/Timeout >> > Try again. > >> ** May need to create user account separately >> > Create a global account for the bot > >> ** The account may be protected >> ** Talk page might be protected > > give the bot account some global privilege that lets it do so. > > This. Nothing else will cover every case.
What? I don't follow this at all. You think creating a super-bot is a good idea instead of handling edge cases gracefully? If the page is protected, don't post to it... it's protected. This kind of message delivery is generally wiki-project newsletters and other quasi-spam, not S.O.S. signals from a sinking ship. If the tool skips a few pages due to them being protected, I think we'll be all right. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
