How can I "notify the developers" with this kind of response?
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On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:51, Tom Parmenter wrote:
How can I "notify the developers" with this kind of response?
| | Post by non-member to a members-only list | |Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive |notification of the moderator's decision.
This means you need to subscribe to the list.
The Cunctator wrote:
Ortonlan88 wrote:
How can I "notify the developers" with this kind of response?
| | Post by non-member to a members-only list | |Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive |notification of the moderator's decision.
This means you need to subscribe to the list.
We should send people a different response to such posts. Posts my nonmembers are *not* moderated; they disappear down a black hole. Nonmembers that submit reasonable posts will expect to be published, and they'll be surprised and discouraged that their posts never appear.
-- Toby
Toby Bartels wrote:
We should send people a different response to such posts. Posts my nonmembers are *not* moderated; they disappear down a black hole. Nonmembers that submit reasonable posts will expect to be published, and they'll be surprised and discouraged that their posts never appear.
Toby is right that the message should read differently.
I am aware when such posts happen. For regular contributors, I just ignore them. For newcomers, I try to respond. But the present system is imperfect, to be sure. I don't know how to change the message that the system sends out. (I mean, I don't know how to change it quickly, but of course the code is available so I could figure it out.)
--Jimbo
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
We should send people a different response to such posts. Posts my nonmembers are *not* moderated; they disappear down a black hole. Nonmembers that submit reasonable posts will expect to be published, and they'll be surprised and discouraged that their posts never appear.
Toby is right that the message should read differently.
Possibly we should be directing them to the bug tracker, or to some kind of 'Wikipedia alert' reflector?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
At 04:06 AM 10/31/02 -0800, Jimbo wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
We should send people a different response to such posts. Posts my nonmembers are *not* moderated; they disappear down a black hole. Nonmembers that submit reasonable posts will expect to be published, and they'll be surprised and discouraged that their posts never appear.
Toby is right that the message should read differently.
I am aware when such posts happen. For regular contributors, I just ignore them. For newcomers, I try to respond. But the present system is imperfect, to be sure.
The problem is that the error message explicitly tells people to post to the list, which most of us can't do. There needs to be some way to report that database bug. It doesn't have to be on wikitech-l, but asking people to send email to an address that will discard it is counterproductive.
Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
The problem is that the error message explicitly tells people to post to the list, which most of us can't do. There needs to be some way to report that database bug. It doesn't have to be on wikitech-l, but asking people to send email to an address that will discard it is counterproductive.
I don't mind if that error message is changed to my personal address, or to an alias for the people with login access to the machine. That way, when an error appears, people can email an address that is likely to alert us.
Actually, perhaps I should have jason set up that alias on joey.bomis.com, because if something is insane on the wikipedia server, it might be slow in sending out emails.
--Jimbo
Jimmy Wales wrote:
I am aware when such posts happen. For regular contributors, I just ignore them. For newcomers, I try to respond.
So if I accidentally send a post from the wrong From: address and it gets sent to you for moderation, then you ignore it? I'd much rather that you posted it!
-- Toby
Toby Bartels wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
I am aware when such posts happen. For regular contributors, I just ignore them. For newcomers, I try to respond.
So if I accidentally send a post from the wrong From: address and it gets sent to you for moderation, then you ignore it? I'd much rather that you posted it!
Kind of annoying, yes... If you think you might do this on a regular basis, you can sign up the other address to the list and put set it to not receive messages from the list. There's probably a better way to handle this stuff...
Anyway, I've changed the address listed in the "can't open database" error message to the new 'wikidown chez bomis.com' alias, which should forward to all the people with a login account on the server (and thus who might have a chance at diagnosing and repairing the problem).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Toby Bartels wrote:
I am aware when such posts happen. For regular contributors, I just ignore them. For newcomers, I try to respond.
So if I accidentally send a post from the wrong From: address and it gets sent to you for moderation, then you ignore it? I'd much rather that you posted it!
In a perfect world, that would be the best thing. But there's no time for that.
Instead, the message should say: "Hey, you sent them from an unsubscribed address, so it's going straight into a blackhole never to be seen again."
Alternatively, someone could volunteer to be the moderator for the list. (The list is not moderated, mind you, it's just that the moderator has the power to take care of this kind of administrivia.)
--Jimbo
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Alternatively, someone could volunteer to be the moderator for the list. (The list is not moderated, mind you, it's just that the moderator has the power to take care of this kind of administrivia.)
--Jimbo
I am willing to do that for Intlwiki-l and mayby wikitech-l. Not for wikipedia-l. I do it now for wikiNL-l, not that there is not much traffic...
Giskart
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 04:34:14 -0800 Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Alternatively, someone could volunteer to be the moderator for the list. (The list is not moderated, mind you, it's just that the moderator has the power to take care of this kind of administrivia.)
As long as no one expects a policy other than "that which is not overt spam is allowed", I'd be happy to help handle the "moderation" of wikipedia-l and/or wikitech-l.
As long as no one expects a policy other than "that which is not overt spam is allowed", I'd be happy to help handle the "moderation" of wikipedia-l and/or wikitech-l.
O.k., I sent him the password. I suppose more than one person could do this.
The list is UNMODERATED and will remain so. Being a moderator only means that you get annoying emails all the time, and have the power to help people.
--Jimbo
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Instead, the message should say: "Hey, you sent them from an unsubscribed address, so it's going straight into a blackhole never to be seen again."
Sounds good. It took me a few times to figure out about the black hole.
Alternatively, someone could volunteer to be the moderator for the list. (The list is not moderated, mind you, it's just that the moderator has the power to take care of this kind of administrivia.)
What level of traffic are we talking about? (Of moderable posts, that is.)
-- Toby
PS: I believe that the last post of mine to be lost, sometime during the Enciclopedia Libre negotiations, included my saying nice things about your character. So you see, Jimmy, you want these things posted! ^_^
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