Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders

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Request for permission

I am requesting the massmessage user right so I can easily send out the {{TAFI weekly selections notice}} to WP:TAFI members (that haven't opted out), per a suggestion on my talk page. I have already been trusted with a couple of other user rights: template editor, and autopatrolled. Thanks, - Evad37 [talk] 01:46, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Done. --Rschen7754 02:31, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) Rschen7754 -- @Kudpung and Mr. Stradivarius: I support this user's request on the condition they are more careful with the messages they send. I received a message from this user today that broke the layout of my talk page due to an extra unwanted </div>. I would be happy to personally carry out a few request to send messages by this user demonstrating technical competence that won't happen again before them getting the right. Technical 13 (talk) 02:37, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
  • You know that MassMessage catches that sort of thing, right? --Rschen7754 02:44, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

• I haven't had a good reason to test it out since we switched from Edwardsbot to be honest. Just saying that the user should check their code over before sending out to everyone and catch it themselves... Anywho, since it is already done, and Evad is aware of what happened, I feel somewhat confident it won't be an issue again. Technical 13 (talk) 02:48, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

How to request a mass message to be sent?

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This page fails to answer the most important question. I want to send Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Newsletter/2 to our members, but this page doesn't suggest how I can do it. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 16:37, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

• Prokonsul, your message has been sent for you per your request. Special:Statistics#mw-massmessage-queued-count. Happy editing! Technical 13 (talk) 17:07, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Thank you. If this talk page is the right place to request mass mailings, can we make this clear in the page? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 17:10, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

• This is one of many ways. I suppose there could be some notes on how to request such a thing. As far as I am aware, you can ask here, ask any Mass message senders directly on their talk pages or on IRC. I'm not sure if there are other methods currently defined. Technical 13 (talk) 17:50, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

• Prokonsul, I take that back, your message has not been sent yet. We need to create a mailing list for it per the instructions on mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage#Creating a page list which definitely needs to be better documented here... I'll make this list for you and get that sent out by tomorrow. Technical 13 (talk) 05:44, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

• I actually got this sent out last night, just too tired to update here. I'll update the project page accordingly to make it easier for others.  :) Happy editing! Technical 13 (talk) 15:11, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Gerald Shields ' request for permission for mass message senders

Geraldshields11 (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te)}

Dear Administrators,

I am requesting permission to be a mass message sender. I am a reviewer but, more importantly, I am the event promotion coordinator for the Wikimedia DC chapter. Recently, I manually placed announcements on the talk pages of Wiki users in DC. Please see my sandbox for the example. Please see my user page for my CV. My best regards, Gerald Shields Geraldshields11 (talk) 17:33, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

• note: added {{rfplinks}} to make this request easier to process — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 18:13, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done Legoktm (talk) 02:30, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

TransporterMan request

TransporterMan (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te)}

I am requesting the user right as the once, current, and future coordinator at the dispute resolution noticeboard and also the most frequent contributor there. We have a long list of volunteers, but not much participation, there and we need a way to both cull that list and to rally the troops. Steven Zhang, the founder of DRN, already has the MMS bit but he's not around en-Wikipedia much more whereas I'm usually around on a daily basis. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 22:13, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

• FWIW, I support this request although this candidates editing history speaks for itself. Good work TransporterMan — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 01:06, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
•  Done Legoktm (talk) 01:14, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Undelivered messages - Wikipedia talk: namespace

See Special:Log/massmessage. There are a large number of entries having "was skipped because target was in a namespace that cannot be posted in". AFACT all are for the Wikipedia talk: namespace. Why is this prohibited? --Redrose64 (talk) 22:49, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

I noticed this as well and went searching. Accord to mw:Extension:MassMessage, the default namespaces are for project pages and user talk pages. The current settings haven't allotted any other namespaces. Killiondude (talk) 23:05, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I updated the documentation on that page. Legoktm (talk) 23:34, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

• Support enabling this for project pages and all talk pages (since there will be some consensus needed to get it changed). — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 23:11, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
• So, this actually got fixed in the code this week, but it hasn't been deployed yet. gerrit:94698 Legoktm (talk) 23:31, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

• Legoktm, I just looked at the Gerrit patch and am confused... It looks like the patch will only allow it to post to project space and no talk spaces, can you point me to the line(s) that enable posting in talk space so I can understand the code please? (I'm not doubting you, just as a learning experience). — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 23:44, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

• If you look at [1], that's where all talk pages are whitelisted. Legoktm (talk) 00:10, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

• Took me a few minutes and had to look at it a few times, if ( !$title->isTalkPage() && !in_array( $title->getNamespace(), $wgNamespacesToPostIn ) ) { says if the title is not a talk page, and if the titles namespace is not in $wgNamespacesToPostIn array, then skip... Got it... Will +1 on Gerrit. Thanks for pointing me to it. :) — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 13:34, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

As long as this is switched off so it doesn't clog-up watchlists. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 09:10, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

I see "Mass Media Log Delivery of "Popular pages tool update" to (all project names) was skipped because target was in a namespace that cannot be posted in" Fine, but other than skipping the projects, what is the popular pages tool update? — Maile (talk) 23:36, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

According to the log, Mr.Z-man was the one who tried to send that message, so you could ask him. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 16:20, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for permission

Another Believer (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te)}

I would like to request permission to use this feature. I am not an admin, but have permission to use other tools and can be trusted not to abuse this one. I often send talk page invitations for meetups, mostly for ones held in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. It can be very tiring to distribute these invitations manually. Also, I am active within the GLAM community, proposed groups like Wikimedia Cascadia and Wikimedia LGBT, and often participate in campaigns like ArtAndFeminism, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc. This tool could prove to be very helpful to me, and save me time. Please let me know if more information is required to gain permission at this time. Thank you for your consideration. --Another Believer _(Talk) 23:02, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

note: I added {{rfplinks}} to make this request easier to process. —Revi_Discussion 06:03, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

If specific examples are required, I intend to distribute to the following lists in the future:

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Participants
• Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/Participants

(Both lists are new and very small, but have potential to expand.) --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:38, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

@Another Believer: sorry, totally missed this request. Done! Legoktm (talk) 01:19, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

No prob. Thanks! --Another Believer _(Talk) 01:20, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Request for trial newsletter delivery

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Can someone with permission to send mass mailings help deliver the following wiki text – {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/User notification}} – to Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Subscriber list? Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball is re-establishing a newsletter, and I'd like to test using the mass mailer bot to deliver notifications for a new issue. Thank you. isaacl (talk) 19:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

An admin has kindly performed the test delivery. We plan to send out the first issue on Sunday; will someone be available to perform the delivery then? isaacl (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Alternatively, if I could be granted permission to send mass mailings, it would be appreciated. The purpose is to deliver the newsletter and possibly other messages to members of WikiProject Baseball. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball#General discussion for discussion of the newsletter. isaacl (talk) 17:52, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

The details for sending out the newsletter for WikiProject Baseball on March 30, 2014 are as follows:

• Subject of mass mailing: ''The Inside Corner'' : March 30, 2014
• Content of mass mailing: {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/User notification}}
• Mailing list: Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Subscriber list

I appreciate your assistance. isaacl (talk) 20:37, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Regarding this edit to the user notification message: note the previous version was based on the notification used by The Signpost, which simply uses the signature of the MediaWiki message delivery user. I prefer this in the interest of conciseness. Since the notification is only sent to those who signed up for the newsletter, there should be no confusion regarding the origin of the message. isaacl (talk) 20:57, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

• It was a cleaner version of what a signature should look like, ideally, that section should contain links to the editors that contributed to the creation of the mailing. I will send your message in about an hour (which will be about 00:00 UTC) and I will modify your template again to include my signature just before doing so as a way for people to ask for help removing themselves from the mailing list if it isn't clear. It is something I always do when mass messaging a list for someone. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 21:55, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
  • The notification is based on the one for The Signpost, which doesn't list individual contributors. I will make a modification to improve the conciseness of the proposed signature. Thanks for your assistance! isaacl (talk) 22:39, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

• See Wikipedia:Mass message senders#Before making your request bullet 2-3 where it says: "It may also be appropriate to include links to the users that contributed to writing the newsletter." which is there for the purposes of proper attribution. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 22:46, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
  • Yes, I have read these instructions previously. The actual newsletter itself contains attributions; the notification message is a summary pointing to the newsletter. Thanks for your feedback. isaacl (talk) 22:56, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

• I see you reverted your change; thanks for your collaboration. isaacl (talk) 22:40, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

This message has been sent. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 02:51, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! isaacl (talk) 06:53, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Message not delivering

I'm trying to send a message to WP:MED/med250. It's not delivering though, there's nothing queued and there are no errors. Here's the message:

Subject: Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

Message:

please help translate this message into the local language

	The Cure Award
	In 2013 you were one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you so much for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date medical information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do!

We are wondering about the educationational background of our top medical editors. Would you please complete a quick 5-question survey? (please only fill this out if you received the award)

Thanks again :) --Ocaasi, Doc James and the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation

---

Any idea what's up or what I'm doing wrong? Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 12:51, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

• I've gone through and fixed the list per the instructions on how to make a list on mediawikiwiki. I'm guessing that you will need to have global Mass message sender userrights to be able to send your message across wikis (and you have to request that on meta). — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 14:27, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

"educationational"? NebY (talk) 14:37, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Multi-project messages must be sent from Meta. From en.wp, you can only send messages to people here at en.wp. (And do please fix that typo.  ;-) WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:29, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Also, this. Now that the syntax is proper, the error message saying only local messages can be delivered is now showing. Legoktm (talk) 15:55, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

It looks like you tried to use code meant for meta:Template:Target. Our own Template:Target is different but should perhaps be changed to use {{#target:}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:33, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Please also make sure the message has a timestamp at the end, for some archiving bots; to do this, sign it with five tildes. Graham87 06:16, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Jim Cartar' request for permission

Hello, my name is Jim Cartar. I'm requesting this permission on behalf of WP:ORPHAN. Actually I have noticed that day by day the project is becoming inactive. So, I have started a new backlog drive system since the backlog reached sky high of more than 100,000 articles. But the members were not cooperating with this project. Most of them were established and have no interest to de-orphaning arcticles and it is impossible for few editors to eliminate the huge backlog. So, I have started this to invite them as well as to notify them about the backlog (similar to AfC backlog drive). You can see the list of members who will receive the Backlog notification here. The notification template is ready {{WPORPHANdrive}}. I have discussed this matter on the projects talkpage and have been supported, see:here along with this I got good reviews from non members like MelanieN, Stfg and Anna Frodesiak. I have also been supported by prominent members like SarahStierch. I have also been trusted and given reviewer rights on english Wikipedia. So, onbehalf of the project I'm requesting for this permission. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 02:22, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

• I support this request, and in the mean time Jim Cartar, I'd be happy to send out any mailings you may have on your behalf. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 02:53, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you @Technical 13: for your support. We (me and SarahStierch) is now working on this. We are creating some templates i.e. some barnstars. We will surely let you know whenever we finish our work. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 03:00, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Done. Please be extra careful with your first few uses of the system. Courcelles 17:53, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Request to send mass message

The first quarter of 2014 has come and gone, and it's time for WP:ANATOMY's quarterly newsletter to be sent out. Would any enabled senders here be so kind as to help me send a mass message? A mailing list and template to be mailed exist (although I'd like to mail a transclusion rather than the full text if possible). --LT910001 (talk) 23:51, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

• Please explain. Also, looking at your message, I see redlinks and raw links producing [1] code that don't seem to be what you were attempting to achieve. there is technically another day and a half or so before the first quarter is over, so there is time to fix these things. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 19:35, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Very prompt!! Happy to explain whatever needs explaining. This is the second quarterly newsletter for WP:ANATOMY which I release in order to let other users know what's going on and hopefully spur some editing. First newsletter I manually transcluded, which was quite time-consuming, and with a view to future newsletters I'd like to try and use this system is possible. Have done another run-over; no more red links (was not expecting such a prompt response!). Am not sure how to pipe an external link and don't see that much of a problem with a [1], unless that breaks things. --LT910001 (talk) 19:41, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

• Is mergers the link you are looking for? — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 19:52, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Have changed those links and (I believe) am ready to go. --LT910001 (talk) 05:30, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Mdann52talk to me! 07:36, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! --LT910001 (talk) 09:30, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

The Herald

The Herald (t · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · wikichecker · count · pages created · auto edits · logs ^{(block • rights)} · google · lu · rfar · arb · rfc · rfcu · ssp · spi) (assign permissions)^{(r · rv · p · f · t)} The herald 12:40, 11 April 2014 (UTC) I have been an active editor. I have rollback, reviwer, OTRS permissions. I sent talk page invitations and welcome users. I welcome new users for Wikipedia Signpost. Now I want to do that more quickly. Can I?? @Mdann52:..Can I?? The herald 05:46, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey appreciate the help, however welcoming new users doesn't require mass-message also sending invitations could be done manually. ///EuroCarGT 21:43, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Request for newsletter delivery: April 27, 2014

Can someone please deliver the next issue of WikiProject Baseball's newsletter on April 27, 2014? Here are the details:

• Subject of mass mailing: ''The Inside Corner'' : April 27, 2014
• Content of mass mailing: {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/User notification}}
• Mailing list: Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Subscriber list

I appreciate your assistance. isaacl (talk) 15:24, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

If someone could send out the next issue of the WikiProject Baseball newsletter, that would be great. isaacl (talk) 21:22, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done - Evad37 [talk] 11:49, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks very much! isaacl (talk) 12:29, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Request for Mass message senders:Akifumii

I am requesting Mass message sender rights because of WP:Galicia. I am a near native speaker of Galician and a few other languages spoken in Spain so, I would like to get this project up and running again. I would like to use this Mass message sender right to notify old members and recruit new members who would like to help with the expansion of this slow, but great project. I would also like to send out monthly newsletters for project members. This would be a great way to keep users updated with what is going on in the community, what members can do better, etc. If there is anything I should do better, let me know! Thanks. Akifumii^Talk 02:26, 7 May 2014 (UTC)