[Mediawiki-l] How to notify all users?

[Jan]

Hi Tim!

Nice :)

U can easily publish this hints on the quoted extension-article ... its a wiki 
... remember:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold_in_updating_pages
(available in many languages)

Best regards,
Jan




Tim Ware schrieb:
> 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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