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). -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone

ignore me, Philippe just mentioned it -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

This is now being taken care of. -Peter On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:22 PM, carlb <carlb613(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Peter B Fitzgerald <pbf5(a)georgetown.edu>wrote;wrote: .....sort of. Someone needs to send me the copy for the email. :-) pb