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Local site administrators can add or remove users to the mass message sender group. Users can request to be added to the group by making a request on the talk page. |
Local site administrators can add or remove users to the mass message sender group. Users can request to be added to the group by making a request on the talk page. |
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Posts on users' talk pages (automated or otherwise) trigger Wikipedia's notification system, implying that their direct attention is needed. As such, mass messages should only be sent to groups of users who are likely to want their attention drawn to the message. |
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For other cases, less personalized means of communication are preferred. Wikipedia's primary means of mass communication is though posts on article talk pages, Wikipedia talk pages, or [[WP:PNB|various noticeboards]], including the Village Pump. Editors who are interested in a given topic will have the corresponding page on their watchlist. The [[WP:RFC]] process can be used to increase participation in a discussion. |
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To reach the members of a given WikiProject, a post on that project's talk page can be used. [[MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice|Site-wide notices]] are used for messages of importance to a great many users. |
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== Requesting a mailing == |
== Requesting a mailing == |
Revision as of 08:06, 30 May 2014
Mass message sender is a user group that allows users to send messages to multiple users at once. Further user documentation can be found at m:MassMessage and mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage.
On the English Wikipedia, there are currently 851 administrators and 55 mass message senders (906 in total). Users with massmessage
user right can send a message using Special:MassMessage.
Local site administrators can add or remove users to the mass message sender group. Users can request to be added to the group by making a request on the talk page.
Use
Posts on users' talk pages (automated or otherwise) trigger Wikipedia's notification system, implying that their direct attention is needed. As such, mass messages should only be sent to groups of users who are likely to want their attention drawn to the message.
For other cases, less personalized means of communication are preferred. Wikipedia's primary means of mass communication is though posts on article talk pages, Wikipedia talk pages, or various noticeboards, including the Village Pump. Editors who are interested in a given topic will have the corresponding page on their watchlist. The WP:RFC process can be used to increase participation in a discussion.
To reach the members of a given WikiProject, a post on that project's talk page can be used. Site-wide notices are used for messages of importance to a great many users.
Requesting a mailing
Requests for mailings may be made on the talk page; on the talk page of any of the 906 users of Wikipedia with the needed userright; or by asking any of those users directly.
Before making your request
Please have the following things available before making your request:
- A proper list (will be further referred to as «YOUR MAILING LIST») of users to mail your newsletter or notice to. A category may be used instead of a list.
- {{Mailing list member}} is a template that can help you accomplish creating your mailing list and offers a few features.
- A newsletter ready to go:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost is a good example. This template page can be in any namespace.
- Some message senders will require that your template include links instructing users how they can opt-out of future messages:
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from [[«YOUR MAILING LIST»|the mailing list]] or alternatively to opt-out of all [[Wikipedia:Mass message senders|massmessage mailings]], you may add [[:Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery]] to your user talk page.
- It may also be appropriate to include links to the users that contributed to writing the newsletter.
Tracking your request
Once your request has been answered, you may follow the progress of your request:
- You can see how many messages are left to be sent on Special:Statistics.
- You can see if there were any issues with any of the members on your list on the log page.
- Please remove members from «YOUR MAILING LIST» if the member's talk page...
- ... was skipped because user account does not exist
- ... was skipped because target was in a namespace that cannot be posted in
- ... failed with an error code of
protectedpage
- ... was skipped because target has opted-out of message delivery
See also
- Discussion on allowing non-administrators to send mass messages. This led to the establishment of a new user group on the English Wikipedia.
- {{Massmessage-sender topicon}} a top icon template to indicate you have mass message sender permission.
- {{User wikipedia/Massmessage-sender}} a userbox template to indicate you have mass message sender permission.