re: Mike - I think my inability to know the difference between substr and subst speaks volumes as to my expertise in this area :-)
I used heaps of tabs and Ctrl+V to post the notes, and will do so once more with the supporting members tomorrow, baring objections, better ideas, or someone else getting there first!
I guess the advantage of the template approach might be that the message can be collaboratively edited after being posted to individuals?.. but I doubt that really matters in this process....
the progress in WMUK is very heartening though :-)
cheers,
Peter PM.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
PM,
Thanks for spreading the word around. By "substr" are you meaning "subst", i.e. where you create a template with the text you want, then put {{subst:TemplateName}} on each user's talk page rather than the message itself? If so, then unless you use a bot it's unlikely to be faster than pasting the whole message in each time. Or are you referring to some other process?
Mike
On 21 Sep 2008, at 03:34, private musings wrote:
G'day all...
"someone doing it by hand could."
and indeed, someone doing it by hand did!
As I mentioned on the meta page, I've dropped notes in to all guarantor members, but will hold on the supporting members for a bit to see if the substr approach might be better (to be honest, I don't really fully understand how that would work! :-) )
I also asked for a confirmation email that my vote was received properly, and received it promptly, which was great - so for me at least, the system worked great :-)
best to all,
Peter PM.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I think that's a great idea. I've drafted a message at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Talk:Wikimedia_UK_v2.0#Message_encouraging_people_to_vote,
Please feel free to amend.
I suggest we go and subst it onto the userpage of everyone who's
signed up -
will only take a few minutes even without AWB.
Looks good. Actually, not using AWB is probably better - a lot of people have a link on their meta talk page to a talk page on their home project, AWB won't be able to follow those links, someone doing it by hand could.
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