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No more distribution list shells on Meta

Hi there! I'm trying to create a new distribution list for the North Carolina Wikipedians (presumably Global message delivery/Targets/North Carolina Wikipedians with a corresponding blocklist). But there are no shells remaining to use. Can I just create the red-linked page and have the content model set up correctly, or do I need to bug an admin to create some shells so I can rename one of them? Thanks so much for that information! -- Gaurav (talk) 22:29, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Erroneous destination

Hi, someone sent a MassMessage destination in the Wikisource:Scriptorium page on the French wikisource. But that page is actually made of monthly pages, so it should have been sent to the fr:Wikisource:Scriptorium/Octobre 2023 page instead. I did the transfer, but please fix this if other messages are planned in the future. Seudo (talk) 16:38, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the transfer and for the note here! You can find out which delivery list was used in a MassMessage by looking at the wikitext for the original message, which always ends with a hidden HTML-comment that links to the page used; in this case it was from User:SGill (WMF)/lists/WS VPs, which I think I've now fixed by copying from a working version elsewhere. I hope that helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:26, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Seudo (talk) 16:43, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Remove Swedish Wikinews

Please remove the Swedish Wikinews from the wikis that receive massmessages. This Wiki is inactive since August 2013 and it have ended up in just clustering wn:Pressrummet. // Kakan spelar (talk) 16:37, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Now done, I think. Removed from Distribution list/Global message delivery/sv, Distribution list/Global message delivery/Wikinews, Distribution list/Non-Technical Village Pumps distribution list, and Distribution list. HTH. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Tagalog Wiktionary Announcements

Currently, mass messages are forwarded to wikt:tl:Wiktionary:Kapihan, can it be moved somewhere instead? I can create a page if wanted. Ysrael214 (talk) 14:53, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Ysrael214. Yes, you/that wiki's community can choose where announcements are sent. Please do help out, by editing the target list(s) directly, so that they use the location you want!

It's a bit complicated because it's all a crowd-sourced-effort, and the listings are used for a wide variety of types of announcement (some very important for local folks to see, and some less important or just of interest to a specific group/role/etc), and so there isn't a formally maintained (nor forced) complete listing, but instead there's a bunch of individually maintained listings.

TLDR: if you check each of these pages - search for Kapihan prefix:"Distribution list" - and update each of them as desired, that should cover most of it. For any messages that still arrive at the old location, you'll need to check the wikitext-source to see which distribution-list was used (it's always mentioned in a hidden comment at the end of the post). I hope that info helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:14, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Test wiki subscriptions

Should test wikis (on the Incubator, Beta Wikiversity or Old Wikisource) be allowed to subscribe to mass messages? Currently most of them have little to no activity, and the messages are pretty much the only thing happening there. (Examples: [1] [2] [3]). And they're not even getting translations. I feel like those places should only be able to receive messages at the central discussion pages. The test wikis can get subscriptions of their own once they're imported to standalone projects. AtUkr^{(talk to me)} 22:08, 2 June 2025 (UTC)