Good to know. Yeah, if there's a required action item (you *have* to do this) for each wiki, no matter how brief the action, I think it's generally worth the blast.
Matt Flaschen On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Matthew Flaschen <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Yeah, there is EdwardsBot which will blast all the Village Pumps for us, > and I've written/delivered messages myself on a smaller scale. It's just > that the only time I've done this in the past was for new features > entirely, usually an extension. Using the global message delivery system > for a single MediaWiki message change feels like a bit like overkill, which > is why asked about precedent. :) > > Steven > _______________________________________________ > 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
