I think it would make more sense to ask the user explicitly, "How would you like to be informed if your files are nominated for deletion?" x Never inform me x Inform me at my Commons talk page (default) x Inform my at my talk page at another wiki, which is User:_ at project _ (fill in the blanks) x Inform me via email; I have verified my email in my Commons account.
that would be pretty cool actually. since 'home wikis' can change as people's interests change. and I think it is generally better to ask what you *mean* rather than what you think will extract the answer you desire (unintended side effects creep in...)
Anyway, unfortunately I have to agree with Platonides et al that we should wait and see exactly what SUL brings. How the watchlist(s) will work has not been made terribly clear, at least in anything I've seen.
cheers Brianna
On 11/02/07, Florian Straub flominator@gmx.net wrote:
"Platonides" Platonides@gmail.com wrote on Saturday, February 10, 2007 4:31 PM:
bawolff wrote:
Flo said:
My additional wish would be a way to contact one time contributers. There are several ways to achieve this:
- Creating a field "home wiki" on the resistration form.
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How hard could that be? Create a field in the log in page saying ''I ussually contribute to project x'', preferably this could be done semi-automatically via referrer headers or wikipedia linking with a url like http://common.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:userlogin?from=en.wikipedia . The thing gets automatically filled out, and the user can change it if he wants. Then when he creates an account, his user page has a template on it automatically that says, "so and so is usually at foo, leave a message both here and there". Then if orphanbot [or whatever you call your bots that send messages] comes a long, sees it, and leaves a message at both commons and the local wiki.
Easy, but it'd involve a change in db fields.
Not necessary. We could create a link to a userpage that includes a template, the username and project the way we do it at the deletion requests ...
Regards,
Flo
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