Hi,
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Is it really effective to paste such huge amounts of (English) text and HTML on village pumps etc.? Won't you just make people redirect the bot to a page nobody looks at to get rid of it?
The distribution list is opt-in, and the people who signed up did so after seeing the first edition, so I'm assuming they're fine with the English text and HTML.
I thought about "just" posting a notification and linking back to the content on meta, but in my experience people prefer to get the content directly on their page (or e-mail) without having to do an extra click.
That said, I still want to keep the text short, and to reduce the use of HTML.
Perhaps transclusion would work better, we used it in the past: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_notifications
Oh, this is interesting. I didn't know about this tool. Is it still maintained?
I'm not sure I understand yet how this system works. I think what we really want in the end is either cross-wiki notifications or cross-wiki transclusion.
-- Guillaume Paumier