Thanks. I had lost that email. Anyway, I ended up using STSGMassMailer and it works great.

I copied the code from: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/STSGMassMailer

and called the file "SpecialMassMailer.php" and put it in the includes directory.

I then modified /includes/SpecialPages.php, adding this at line 74:

'MassMailer' => array( 'SpecialPage', 'MassMailer' ),

It now shows up on Special:Specialpages as

<massmailer>

I do have a couple questions:

Why is it surrounded in brackets?

When I try to access: Special:MassMailer or Special:massmailer

I get the page that says I've requested an invalid special page. But the list of special pages shows the <massmailer> at the top, so I think that although it works perfectly, I've omitted something?

Thanks.

Tim

On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Jan wrote:

As written before, search at extensions on mediawiki and meta.mediawiki.org

u would have found: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/STSGMassMailer http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification

Tim Ware schrieb:

...

Someone referred me to an extension for notifying all users, via email, but it wasn't there.

I am the sysop and I'd like to be able to send a global email to all registered users when necessary.

I'm using v.1.8.2.

Thanks. Tim

Thanks for the tip. I added instructions for using the extension to the page here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/STSGMassMailer

It should make the task much easier for the next user, which is part of the point!

Now if I only knew why it shows up on Special:Specialpages as <massmailer>

But it works great.

Tim

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On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Tim Ware wrote:

Thanks. I had lost that email. Anyway, I ended up using STSGMassMailer and it works great.

I copied the code from: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/STSGMassMailer

and called the file "SpecialMassMailer.php" and put it in the includes directory.

I then modified /includes/SpecialPages.php, adding this at line 74:

'MassMailer' => array( 'SpecialPage', 'MassMailer' ),

It now shows up on Special:Specialpages as

<massmailer>

I do have a couple questions:

Why is it surrounded in brackets?

When I try to access: Special:MassMailer or Special:massmailer

I get the page that says I've requested an invalid special page. But the list of special pages shows the <massmailer> at the top, so I think that although it works perfectly, I've omitted something?

Thanks.

Tim

On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Jan wrote:

...

As written before, search at extensions on mediawiki and meta.mediawiki.org

u would have found: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/STSGMassMailer http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification

Tim Ware schrieb:

...

Someone referred me to an extension for notifying all users, via email, but it wasn't there.

I am the sysop and I'd like to be able to send a global email to all registered users when necessary.

I'm using v.1.8.2.

Thanks. Tim

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