Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
The whole point of this excercise is that it was not technically *unfeasible* for a single actor on the english language Wikipedia to mass spam all the editors on that wikipedia (and with a generous offer to help - but not initiate - efforts on other languages).
Certainly, but doing so on 700 or so more wikis using the Special:Emailuser interface has some complications. For example, it would result in many editors getting multiple notification emails if they have several eligible accounts with different names (which is common). For another, none of us have the time to do it by loading Special:Emailuser for every eligible user (unless you're offering to do so).
The ideal solution is to send a single notification email to a list of the confirmed addresses belonging to eligible voters, filtered to remove duplicates. This is easy and efficient and resolves the above problems, but we need help from a system administrator to do so since we don't have access to those email addresses. We have a system administrator who will generate the list of eligible accounts, so getting the list of emails should be relatively easy (although we may not see them ourselves, depending on privacy considerations).
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
This is (*frankly*) not good enough.
This frankly is good enough. We're not obliged to even try; we are only volunteers serving in our free time, and sending email notification is purely an extra service beyond what we were asked to do. You're welcome to mention any suggestions, but I think starting a conversation like that is inappropriate.