Repeating myself: A) having an email address in your account isn't required for editing B) what if I don't have an account?
M. so 10. 2. 2018 v 16:57 odesílatel Maximilian Doerr < maximilian.do...@gmail.com> napsal: > Why not just make use of the Special:EmailUser function? > > Cyberpower678 > English Wikipedia Account Creation Team > English Wikipedia Administrator > Global User Renamer > > On Feb 10, 2018, at 06:26, Martin Urbanec <martin.urba...@wikimedia.cz> > wrote: > > Hello, > > upon request at Czech Wikipedia's helpdesk I created a tool that sends > notifications about new weekly articles by e-mail together with its first > paragraph and link to it. To accomplish such a thing I need user's email, > so I firstly decided to store it in a database. To prevent this tool from > spamming I of course require its confirmation by accessing an URL with a > random string (MD5 hash of user's email *and* random number from 1 to > 100; I mean, those two things are in one hash). You can have a look at this > tool at tools.wmflabs.org/wiki2email/. > > My question is: Is this okay? Should I add some kind of formal information > to the tool? If so, is there some help page? Should I stop with collecting > mails at all and use some WMF-maintained service for mass-emailing (mailman > at lists.wikimedia.org maybe?) and make the tool to just send an email to > the list itself? > > This question came to my mind before creating, so I do appologize for > asking after programming. > > Best regards, > Martin Urbanec > -- > Můj kalendář najdete na https://martin.urbanec.cz/calendar.html > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud -- Můj kalendář najdete na https://martin.urbanec.cz/calendar.html
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