Your right, There's probably not going to be any technical enhancements anytime soon. So basically what of this can be implemented without software changes?
for the make I'm on another wiki messages standardized you could do:
A redirection template, could be included in the editintro for all new user pages (i think its something like mediawiki:userpageintro ). something along the lines of:
just writing here, to go to other wikis to talk to you? please just use <charinsert>{{redirMessage|wikiquote:fr:user:foo}}</charinsert>.
This way its in a standardized format, and if someone comes along to make a bot to copy *important* messages over there, it'd make it way easier for them.
-bawolff
On 11/11/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/11/06, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps have some sort of optional field in the registration form, that says: I come from this wiki project. and if they fill it out, a bot will copy automatic deletion notices over there too. If they come to commons:special:userlogin/create_account (or whatever the link is) from another wiki well logged in, this part of the form can be passed with get arguments e.g http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:userlogin?from=user:enwiki
of course single user login is a better solution, but I see that happening a long time form now (If it ever happens) -bawolff
OK, that would be brilliant, but I see SUL being implemented before I see specialised signup pages being written just for Commons!
Anyway, I made a bug request that Commons get email notification ( http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7870 ). I also notice there is an open request to enable it on basically all the wikis ( http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5505 - well, if they do it for the "major wikis", I don't understand why they wouldn't do it for all).
Anyway, one problem (again) is the technical, of getting Enotif, the second is the social problem of training people to actually turn it on and use it. (Unless we turn it on by default for new accounts, that would be awesome...)
From the other discussion -- I am not to keen on the idea of switching warnings to email only. For one thing, they're /invisible/ to the wiki. No one else can tell if a person has already been warned or not. For another, I don't really feel the need to reveal my email address to every jerk copyright ignorer on the planet :P although I could get a Wikimedia only one, but eh... hassle!
cheers, Brianna