https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35306
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Bug #: 35306
Summary: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery
(thoughts)
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: b...@mzmcbride.com
Classification: Unclassified
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I currently run a bot (EdwardsBot) that handles global message delivery:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery>. I'm not sure how
sustainable this situation is, particularly as Wikimedia staff are now relying
on this system more and more to communicate to groups of wiki users.
I'm filing this bug as I'd like there to be some general thought for the best
way of doing something like this (in an extension, perhaps? on Wikimedia labs?
or a Toolserver tool with a user interface and real logging?). And is something
like this needed at other wiki farms? Perhaps an extension could provide
different delivery methods (or allow users to control how they want a message
delivered, ideally). Or you could have streams that users can subscribe to,
maybe?
There should also be some general thought about whether this is the right
approach at all. Updating a bunch of wiki pages has benefits (there's an
archive, there's an associated e-mail notification, etc.) but it also has
detriments (decentralizing the message, slow to deliver, waste of resources,
e-mail notifications don't contain the actual message, watchlist and
RecentChanges flooding, etc.). Perhaps there are better tools to achieve the
underlying goal (e-mail?)? Or maybe talk pages are best (and will be better
with LiquidThreads). It all needs thought.
And then there are general issues of who should be able to deliver to who and
when consent is needed and all of that. Lots of thought needed!
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