Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com wrote:
Has anything been done to let people that have put their names down
for membership know that the vote has started? If someone familiar with AWB or similar could go through and add a message to everyone's talk page, it would be good. I don't think we can expect everyone to be either on this list or watching the meta page.
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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_pe...,
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.
Andrew
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_pe...,
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.
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.comwrote:
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_pe... ,
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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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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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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On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 20:27 +1000, private musings wrote:
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....
A subst'd template is copy & pasted by mediawiki, and so cannot be edited "centrally" afterwards.
KTC
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!
That's the same method I used to inform all the candidates about the statements page, and it worked for me (although that was a shorter list!). I'd go for it, if I were you.
2008/9/21 private musings thepmaccount@gmail.com:
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....
There isn't really any advantage in the template system for the job you're doing! The purpose of a substituted template (i.e. one using {{subst:...}}) is that multiple people can use the same code. As you're doing it on your own, Ctrl-V is about the best way!
Thanks for doing this!
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