Yes, and the list is kept on a Google Doc, which can be deleted once the
mail is sent.
Powers &8^]
-----Original Message-----
From: Jani Patokallio [mailto:jpatokal@iki.fi]
Sent: Wednesday 16 January 2013 20:59
To: Thehelpfulone; wikivoyage-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikivoyage-l] Mass mailing to signed-up users
So when we first made public the plans of the split on my blog back in July,
we included the following text:
" The RFC is expected to run until the end of August, with a formal decision
and the launch of the new site to follow soon thereafter. To be notified if
and when the new site it goes live, please sign up at this form. You will
receive a single mail, and your e-mail address will then be thrown away. "
And now we'd like to notify these people. Something along these lines:
"""
Greetings,
Last year, you requested to be notified when the new Wikimedia-run fork of
Wikitravel goes live. We're delighted to announce that Wikivoyage has
launched:
http://wikivoyage.org
For more details, see the official press release:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Launch_press_release
You will not receive any further mails from us.
Thank you for support,
The Wikivoyage team
"""
Cheers,
-jani
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Thehelpfulone
<thehelpfulonewiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 17 January 2013 01:11, Jani Patokallio <jpatokal(a)iki.fi> wrote:
So I gather the mailing to the signed-up users hasn't gone out yet? If all
else fails, I can do it from my personal account, but it would really be
preferable to do it from a
wikivoyage.org or
wikimedia.org address. Would
it be hard to eg. set up a one-off mailing list, or is there another nice
way to handle this?
Cheers,
-jani
Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by this, I may have missed some discussion
- what do you want to send out in this email, a welcome email for new users
and some information about what the project's about? When a user creates an
account they currently receive an email from
wiki[at]wikimedia.org. The
email template for new user accounts on the English Wikipedia is at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Confirmemail_body and the one for
English Wikivoyage is at
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Confirmemail_body (editable by
admins).
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Thehelpfulone
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone