Note for kowikiEdit
Please keep in mind that not all VPs are operated as other wikis do; we at kowiki uses subpages divided weekly or monthly (so ABSOLUTELY nobody posts on the main VP, they post it on "YYYY(year) Week X" page or "YYYY(year) XX(month)" subpages. — regards, Revi 13:27, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- @-revi: Hm, I’m not sure how to deal with that to be honest… how did people previously write to that VP using MassMessage? --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 09:47, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- We put {{#time:Y년 n월|+9 hours}} for monthly, and {{#time:o|+9 hours}}년 제{{#expr:{{#time:W|+9 hours}}}}주 for weekly. — regards, Revi 09:54, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- It isn't even the only exception FWIW. [1] --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 12:36, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- @-revi and Elitre: hm, so should I teach the tool to use overrides from pages in Special:PrefixIndex/Distribution_list/ for certain items? --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 12:51, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
- Wouldn't that defy the point of having a tool that can extract the pages that are most certainly up-to-date? Note that not all the distribution lists are well maintained. What you only need to retain is the code for certain wikis (which I am guessing is still current in the specific list I mentioned, but I can't vouch for the others). I am also fairly sure that there are other undocumented exceptions. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Landsbybrønden for example isn't really supposed to receive messages, they also use subpages. I always create threads manually if I need to contact them. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 13:52, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
- Well, I’m not sure what the main benefit of the tool is :) even without using Wikidata directly, it could still be useful for the fallback functionality. But I guess I can also hard-code the individual exceptions (per page, not per item!), sourced from the message lists.
- (A tiny voice in my head keeps cheeping “we wouldn’t have this problem if we all used Structured Discussions” but I know we can’t force that change on all the communities :D ) --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 08:50, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
- Wouldn't that defy the point of having a tool that can extract the pages that are most certainly up-to-date? Note that not all the distribution lists are well maintained. What you only need to retain is the code for certain wikis (which I am guessing is still current in the specific list I mentioned, but I can't vouch for the others). I am also fairly sure that there are other undocumented exceptions. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Landsbybrønden for example isn't really supposed to receive messages, they also use subpages. I always create threads manually if I need to contact them. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 13:52, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
- @-revi and Elitre: hm, so should I teach the tool to use overrides from pages in Special:PrefixIndex/Distribution_list/ for certain items? --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 12:51, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
- It isn't even the only exception FWIW. [1] --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 12:36, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- We put {{#time:Y년 n월|+9 hours}} for monthly, and {{#time:o|+9 hours}}년 제{{#expr:{{#time:W|+9 hours}}}}주 for weekly. — regards, Revi 09:54, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- @-revi and Elitre (WMF): Done! I imported the exceptions from the “global message delivery” page (full list), and the tool should apply them now. I just hope I didn’t miss anything… I searched for all pages with a
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, is there any other kind of special pattern that a wiki might use? (I also didn’t check any other distribution lists because it seems like the global one should cover everything.) --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 17:08, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
A little confusionEdit
I just used the tool (Which I love by the way) to generate this list. I removed some wikis manually as they were not intended for the message I sent. However it appears I still ran afoul of this problem. What did I do wrong? CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- (ping Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) who may have missed this. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 10:44, 27 April 2018 (UTC))
- @CKoerner (WMF): Ah, I only added overrides for Project:Village pump (Q16503), not for Wikipedia:Village pump (Q4582194), sorry… I’ll add overrides for Wikipedia:Village pump (Q4582194) too if I find the time (sourced from Distribution list/Technical Village Pumps distribution list, I guess). --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 10:57, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- @CKoerner (WMF) and Elitre (WMF): should work better now (commit), thanks for the bug report :)
- Thanks Lucas! I appreciate it. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 17:02, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- @CKoerner (WMF) and Elitre (WMF): should work better now (commit), thanks for the bug report :)
Error 500Edit
Hello!
I'm trying to generate a MassMessage list for bot coordination projets. However, WDMM returns me an error 500.
Can it be fixed?
Thank you, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 12:40, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Trizek (WMF): Should be fixed now, thanks for the report! --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 00:34, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
- Yes! Wonderful, thank you Lucas! Trizek (WMF) (talk) 10:24, 31 August 2020 (UTC)