MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted
emails with some more information (for example, I would like to see diff
inside of my email
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
> from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
>
> The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted
> emails with some more infor
On 19 April 2011 11:59, Chris Keating wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
>
> > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
> > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
> >
> > The first idea was that it would be better t
On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote:
> MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
> from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
>
> The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted
> emails with some more information (for exam
Glad you guys brought this question up as I am working on rewriting one of
the things right now. See further discussioner here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Welcome_email
All suggestions and tweaks are welcome.
Best wishes,
Lennart
--
Lennart Guldbrands
On Apr 19, 2011 8:20 AM, "Tim Starling" wrote:
>
> On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
> > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
> >
> > The first idea was that it would be better to have some bet
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Dan Collins wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2011 8:20 AM, "Tim Starling" wrote:
> >
> > On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
> > > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
> >
On 26/04/11 02:37, Dan Collins wrote:
[...]
>> The main problem is that they are plain text instead of HTML.
>
> This is most certainly /not/ a problem. What would be a problem would be if
> MediaWiki chose to jump on the bandwagon of embedding huge external images
> in emails to users. Bandwidth?
