In terms of bots, may I suggest MessageDeliveryBot for the english Wikipedia, or for deliveries on more than one project Global message delivery (hosted on Meta)?
Regards,
Rock drum
> From: aude.wiki@gmail.com
> To: wikix-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:51:02 -0500
> CC: wikix-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiX-l] Contacting local wikipedians?
>
> We can use the watchlist geonotice. They have worked well for the DC
> and NYC groups. I really don't think we cache watchlists since users
> need them up-to-date
>
> Also, we can do user talk page invites to people in that category.
> Just draft an invite message and someone with a bot can deliver.
>
> Katie (@aude)
>
> PS - Sorry for top post
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Neal McBurnett <neal@mcburnett.org> wrote:
>
> > I posted this at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump
> > but haven't gotten any replies there, so thought I'd try here.
> >
> > Contacting local wikipedians
> >
> > What are good and appropriate ways to contact local wikipedians? I
> > guess the watchlist notice
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Watchlist-details#10th_anniversary
> > )
> > may be the best (that's how I learned about this). But I wonder what
> > other options there are. A geographical watchlist seems possible:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Geonotice.js though caching may
> > make that slow to take effect.
> >
> > Is there a way to automatically process user ids in relevant
> > categories
> > (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Colorado)
> > to find prolific active contributors so we can invite them on their
> > user page? Are there bots suitable for this?
> >
> > Also, are there any good templates on en.wikipedia to use for
> > advertising local events, or advice for making them?
> >
> > Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
> >
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