On 31.01.2011, 22:06 Raymond wrote: > I'm involved in a project that would like to contact Wikipedia users via > email. I'm wondering whether I will need to get approval from the Bot > Approval Group (BAG) to run a script that will contact up to several > thousand emailable users via the Wikipedia API (to ask users to > participate in a research study.) I'm under the impression that 1) > since I can email users using the API without special privileges and 2) > I wouldn't be making any edits to the Wikipedia, I wouldn't need > approval from BAG. However, is the possibility that my emails will be > construed as spam and my script and account be blocked as a result? > Should I run this scenario by BAG before running my email script?
Mass-mailing IS EXTREMELY frowned upon, your account will be blocked with 100% certainty (and I'm NOT exaggerating). There are public ways if you want to inform many people, by emailing you will create nothing but problems for yourself, there were precendents before. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
