On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxst...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Solution 2:
> Use the api.php to post to the user talk page.
> * Has lots of failure cases:
> ** Connection error/Timeout
>
Try again.

> ** May need to create user account separately
>
Create a global account for the bot

> ** The account may be protected
> ** Talk page might be protected

… give the bot account some global privilege that lets it do so.

This. Nothing else will cover every case.

-- 
Andrew Garrett
Wikimedia Foundation
agarr...@wikimedia.org
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