[Mediawiki-l] How to notify all users?

[Tim Ware]

Thanks for the tip. I added instructions for using the extension to  
the page here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/STSGMassMailer

It should make the task much easier for the next user, which is part  
of the point!

Now if I only knew why it shows up on Special:Specialpages as  
<massmailer>

But it works great.

Tim



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On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Tim Ware wrote:

> Thanks. I had lost that email. Anyway, I ended up using
> STSGMassMailer and it works great.
>
> I copied the code from:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/STSGMassMailer
>
> and called the file "SpecialMassMailer.php" and put it in the
> includes directory.
>
> I then modified /includes/SpecialPages.php, adding this at line 74:
>
> 'MassMailer'		=> array( 'SpecialPage', 'MassMailer' ),
>
> It now shows up on Special:Specialpages  as
>
> 	<massmailer>
>
> I do have a couple questions:
>
> Why is it surrounded in brackets?
>
> When I try to access:  Special:MassMailer  or Special:massmailer
>
> I get the page that says I've requested an invalid special page. But
> the list of special pages shows the <massmailer> at the top, so I
> think that although it works perfectly, I've omitted something?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tim
>
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Jan wrote:
>
>> As written before, search at extensions on mediawiki and
>> meta.mediawiki.org
>>
>> u would have found:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/STSGMassMailer
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification
>>
>>
>> Tim Ware schrieb:
>>> Someone referred me to an extension for notifying all users, via
>>> email, but it wasn't there.
>>>
>>> I am the sysop and I'd like to be able to send a global email to all
>>> registered users when necessary.
>>>
>>> I'm using v.1.8.2.
>>>
>>> Thanks. Tim
>
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