[Mediawiki-l] mail-to-wiki gateway for general mail

[Rob Church]

The implementation that springs to mind, for me, would be a bot or
application checking a dedicated mailbox, and doing the HTTP requests
to submit the pages to the wiki. At least, first thoughts.

Now you've added another thing to my
to-think-about-and-maybe-try-to-do list. Well done. ;-)


Rob Church

On 12/10/05, Bovlb <wiki at meninx.com> wrote:
> I run a MediaWiki installation at work, and I'm investigating whether
> we can CC/forward mail messages directly into the Wiki.  This will
> make it easier for information to get in there, at least in raw form,
> and hence accelerate acceptance.
>
> I've been poking around various pages, and the archives of this list,
> and I see that this has come up before, and there is even some code,
> but it always concentrates on accepting specially formatted messages
> which specify the page name, and include a plain (or wiki) text
> payload.  It seems to me that this is barely worthwhile, as its almost
> as easy to copy it into a web browser.
>
> In my company (and I'm sure I'm not alone in this), people send each
> other a lot of rich format e-mail, especially Word and Excel
> documents.  I want to make it easier for these to get into the wiki.
>
> What I'm looking for is a way to accept any arbitrary mail message in
> a way that will be usuable.  This means that attachments of various
> types need to be handled and uploaded as separate pages, then linked
> from the main article.  The main article needs a generated name, say
> using the message-id or a GUID.  Primitive indexing could be done with
> creative use of categories.  Any message that turns out to be crucial
> will quickly be linked to from the appropriate place.
>
> I know that the answer to this is "implement it yourself", but I'm
> surprised that no-one seems to have thought about this, or attempted
> an implementation.  Am I terribly misguided here?  Is anyone already
> working on this?  Is anyone interested in collaborating?
>
> Cheers,
> [[en:User:Bovlb]]
>
> Some pages I have looked at:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mail-to-wiki_gateway
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-September/thread.html#6846
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-September/thread.html#7105
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-August/thread.html#6197
>
>
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