Hi! I¹m not sure whether this is the right way to post a message to the list, my experience with mailing lists is ehh... absent. ;)
Yesterday, when SUL became available for all users, Special:Log/newusers was flooded with new usernames created automatically. I run a welcome.py bot and I discovered that the bot welcomes all the automatically created users as well, i.e. giving welcome messages to people that don¹t even know the language. That¹s a waste. Would it be possible to do one of the following things?
1. Making the bot see the difference between automatically created users and ignoring them 2. Making the bot see the difference between automatically created users and give them a separate welcome template
Thanks!
[[w:no:user:H92]]
Well, yes, some devs actually received it. :)
Thanks for your suggestion, I actually implemented a fix and committed it in r5449-r5450 : automatically created accounts are now being detected and ignored.
I don't really think that we need to welcome automatically created users, but if this is needed, a -welcomeauto option can be easily added.
2008/5/28 Herman Ferre herman@ferre.no:
Hi! I'm not sure whether this is the right way to post a message to the list, my experience with mailing lists is ehh... absent. ;)
Yesterday, when SUL became available for all users, Special:Log/newusers was flooded with new usernames created automatically. I run a welcome.py bot and I discovered that the bot welcomes all the automatically created users as well, i.e. giving welcome messages to people that don't even know the language. That's a waste. Would it be possible to do one of the following things?
- Making the bot see the difference between automatically created users
and ignoring them 2. Making the bot see the difference between automatically created users and give them a separate welcome template
Thanks!
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Has the -welcomeauto option been enabled? If it hasn't can you enable it. Thanks Legoktm
Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
Well, yes, some devs actually received it. :)
Thanks for your suggestion, I actually implemented a fix and committed it in r5449-r5450 : automatically created accounts are now being detected and ignored.
I don't really think that we need to welcome automatically created users, but if this is needed, a -welcomeauto option can be easily added.
2008/5/28 Herman Ferre herman@ferre.no:
Hi! I'm not sure whether this is the right way to post a message to the list, my experience with mailing lists is ehh... absent. ;)
Yesterday, when SUL became available for all users, Special:Log/newusers was flooded with new usernames created automatically. I run a welcome.py bot and I discovered that the bot welcomes all the automatically created users as well, i.e. giving welcome messages to people that don't even know the language. That's a waste. Would it be possible to do one of the following things?
- Making the bot see the difference between automatically created users
and ignoring them 2. Making the bot see the difference between automatically created users and give them a separate welcome template
Thanks!
— [[w:no:user:H92]] _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l