At the least, I think we should post at the closest equivalent to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MediaWiki_messages for each wiki. Typically, this might be the local version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical) or just http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump (depending how big the wiki is). A bot should be able to deliver this message to all the pages, once the list is in place.
Ideally, we'll give them enough time to prepare, and provide a link for central feedback (e.g. a bugzilla). Matt Flaschen On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently, in order to make a rather small user interface change (see bug > #42215), our team needed to replace MediaWiki:Welcomecreation with a new > message, MediaWiki:Welcomecreation-msg. > > The new message contains all of the things MediaWiki normally inserts in > that message, and simply changes the header text. Simple enough. > > My question here is... Is there a best practice for advertising changes to > MediaWiki messages like these? > > This message, which is given to users once after they register, is > sometimes customized. We can go look and see which wikis have written > custom content, and inform them they need to migrate it to the new message. > But I was wondering if others have encountered this problem, and how they > dealt with it. > > -- > Steven Walling > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
