Don’t think there’s any hard limit for admins, and as you’re one you should be able to send the mass message yourself if you want.
Michael
On 4 Sep 2019, at 18:33, Lucas Teles teleswiki@gmail.com wrote:
That’s really helpful indeed A query with participants in Brazil returned more than 7000 users. I wonder if there is a limit or if it is fine to send to all of them.
Teles
Em ter, 3 de set de 2019 às 17:22, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com escreveu:
Hi Michael,
Thanks, this is helpful to document. If you would be willing to update/expand the documentation here, that would be great: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentatio...
In general, this is the place where we try to collect these best practices: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentatio...
Best, Lodewijk
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 12:19 PM Michael Maggs Michael@maggs.name wrote: I just copied and edited the original template for the UK situation. Here's the UK version:
https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/38769
Just stepping through what to do:
Fork the above query, using the Fork button
Change both sections of yellow text to relate to your situation, the first with your old Commons categories and the single line underneath with your current category. Note that you need the underlines between the words; spaces won't work
Copy the results. If too many, download as csv, then open in a text editor, to get raw text with one entry per line
Use the results as the target for a mass message on Commons. Unless you're an admin, you'll need help doing that, as non-admins are limited in the number of messages they can send.
4a. Start a new page on Commons, in your own userspace. Set out the subject line and body text of the message you want to send. Also include the list of targets. My example page is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MichaelMaggs/WLM-UK2019Message
4b. Post a request to the Commons Administrator's noticeboard (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard) for an admin to send the message for you. Here's my request: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_no...
4c. If all's OK, a friendly admin will be along soon to complete the messaging.
Hope that helps
Michael
Neville Borg 3 September 2019 at 7:50 pm This sounds fantastic. Is there a foolproof way to do this for those of us with no knowledge of SQL? :)
I've changed the categories to WLM in Malta, as appropriate. Is there anything else I need to change?
Neville
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I have used a modified version of this to invite 2500 people on Commons who previously contributed to WLM in the UK.
Regards
Michael
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