[ComProj] Community news (was: New project, the Wikipedia Globe)

Cary Bass cary at wikimedia.org
Thu Oct 9 19:07:36 UTC 2008


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Milos Rancic wrote:
> From time to time I was asking people to fill the page [1], so we may
> be able to make a bot for community news. I think now that better idea
> is to make something like "Project:Community news" page (with
> translation in all languages) at every project. However, this needs
> asking every particular community. And I suppose that this is the part
> of ComProj's job :)
> 
> I could make a bot which would be used by writing new section at the
> Meta page by specific group of people (I suppose, again, by some
> ComProj's members). The bot will check every hour is there any news
> and is it written by particular user. If so, bot would resend that
> message to all (specified) projects.
> 
> [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikimedian_pubs
> 

Does this mean that you'll have your bot spam the notice [2] on all
Wikipedias (only, no Wikibooks, Wiktionaries, etc.) listed here[3] ?

[2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo/Notification
[3]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Internal/Distribution_list

Thanks :)

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