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
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Jani Patokallio jpatokal@iki.fi wrote:
Would it be hard to eg. set up a one-off mailing list,
That would not be very hard. Feel free to ask me or thehelpfulone to create a list. We can make you a list admin and you could copy/paste lists of email addresses and mass-subscribe them. Just make sure we don't get complaints for spamming without opt-in.
On 17 January 2013 01:11, Jani Patokallio jpatokal@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).
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:
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@gmail.com
wrote:
On 17 January 2013 01:11, Jani Patokallio jpatokal@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).
-- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone
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@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:
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@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 January 2013 01:11, Jani Patokallio jpatokal@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).
fwiw, there was also a Google doc somewhere where people could add their email address to be informed about the launch of Wikivoyage. I am not sure if the content of that has been used yet to actually mail those people...
ignore me, Philippe just mentioned it
On 17/01/13 16:19, Daniel Zahn wrote:
fwiw, there was also a Google doc somewhere where people could add their email address to be informed about the launch of Wikivoyage. I am not sure if the content of that has been used yet to actually mail those people...
The sign up listed on meta: a few months ago for "notify me when this launches"?
Nope, signed up, never was notified. Did this thing launch? :)
This is now being taken care of.
-Peter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:22 PM, carlb carlb613@hotmail.com wrote:
On 17/01/13 16:19, Daniel Zahn wrote:
fwiw, there was also a Google doc somewhere where people could add their email address to be informed about the launch of Wikivoyage. I am not sure if the content of that has been used yet to actually mail those people...
The sign up listed on meta: a few months ago for "notify me when this
launches"?
Nope, signed up, never was notified. Did this thing launch? :)
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cool, thanks for the update Peter.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Peter B Fitzgerald pbf5@georgetown.eduwrote:
This is now being taken care of.
-Peter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:22 PM, carlb carlb613@hotmail.com wrote:
On 17/01/13 16:19, Daniel Zahn wrote:
fwiw, there was also a Google doc somewhere where people could add their email address to be informed about the launch of Wikivoyage. I am not sure if the content of that has been used yet to actually mail those people...
The sign up listed on meta: a few months ago for "notify me when this
launches"?
Nope, signed up, never was notified. Did this thing launch? :)
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Peter B Fitzgerald pbf5@georgetown.eduwrote:
This is now being taken care of.
-Peter
.....sort of. Someone needs to send me the copy for the email. :-)
pb
Rather than going the 'mailing list' route, since it's for a one-time send, why don't I just do it? If someone can give me access to the google doc, and the final text, I'll get it sent out from an appropriate email address.
pb
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonewiki@gmail.comwrote:
On 17 January 2013 01:11, Jani Patokallio jpatokal@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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