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(a)gmail.com
To: wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:51:02 -0500
CC: wikix-l(a)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(a)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_annivers…
)
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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