PM,

Thanks for spreading the word around. By "substr" are you meaning
"subst", i.e. where you create a template with the text you want,
then put {{subst:TemplateName}} on each user's talk page rather than
the message itself? If so, then unless you use a bot it's unlikely to
be faster than pasting the whole message in each time. Or are you
referring to some other process?

Mike

On 21 Sep 2008, at 03:34, private musings wrote:

> G'day all...
>
> "someone doing
> it by hand could."
>
> and indeed, someone doing it by hand did!
>
> As I mentioned on the meta page, I've dropped notes in to all
> guarantor members, but will hold on the supporting members for a
> bit to see if the substr approach might be better (to be honest, I
> don't really fully understand how that would work! :-) )
>
> I also asked for a confirmation email that my vote was received
> properly, and received it promptly, which was great - so for me at
> least, the system worked great :-)
>
> best to all,
>
> Peter
> PM.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Thomas Dalton
> <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think that's a great idea. I've drafted a message at
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
> Talk:Wikimedia_UK_v2.0#Message_encouraging_people_to_vote,
> >
> > Please feel free to amend.
> >
> > I suggest we go and subst it onto the userpage of everyone who's
> signed up -
> > will only take a few minutes even without AWB.
>
> Looks good. Actually, not using AWB is probably better - a lot of
> people have a link on their meta talk page to a talk page on their
> home project, AWB won't be able to follow those links, someone doing
> it by hand could.
>
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