On 11/10/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/10/06, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
Well if they have an email listed, It is (I assume) fairly easy to email them. However sometimes, If Commonsticker lists an image deleted, I go look and investigate it, Figure out who uploaded it. Then I look at their talk page. - it usually has only a deletion notice, and nothing else. I notice that the user page link is blue - look at that, it says basicly "I'm never going to be back here again - goto wikipedia to talk to me". If we were able to make a bot that saw that (yes I know this is more or less impossible), and put a notice on the wiki that pointed to, it would go a long way to getting users to listen/hear. ~~~~
-user:Bawolff
could set up welcome notices which include asking people to provide a link to thier home project in a certian format.
-- geni
That could work, Just using a template e.g. {{redirMesg|fr:Wikipedia:user talk:foo}}, or maybe getting them to do a #Redirect[[fr:wikipedia:user talk:foo]] could work also, as eventhough it wouldn't technically redirect (I assume) that would be easy for a bot to pick out+many users already do that. Actually what someone said previously about enabling talk messages emailing by default would be a good solution as well imho (As its really just flicking a switch) but that goes back to them having an email.
-bawolff