Global message delivery/Spam
Global message delivery is getting a makeover! Check out this note for further information.
- Access list — make sure you're listed here
- Update the "Spam" page appropriately.
- The key is a unique string. It ensures that in case the bot has to restart (due to a Toolserver hiccup or an API hiccup or whatever), people will not receive the same message twice. The string can be anything, but for simplicity's sake, just add one to the current count. If you have to restart the bot because for some reason it didn't work (e.g. because the target wasn't in the correct format), you still have to change the key.
- At present it is a four-digit number, the simplest thing to do is to increment it.
- Follow the guidelines at Global message delivery.
- The key is a unique string. It ensures that in case the bot has to restart (due to a Toolserver hiccup or an API hiccup or whatever), people will not receive the same message twice. The string can be anything, but for simplicity's sake, just add one to the current count. If you have to restart the bot because for some reason it didn't work (e.g. because the target wasn't in the correct format), you still have to change the key.
- Update the bot's "Status" page to "Start". The bot's current status is: Completed run successfully.
You may want to watch the status page as well. If there is an error or some sort of issue, the bot will (perhaps) update the status page with a description of the problem.
When working on multiple projects, you can use this or this tool to check where the bot has run. If the Toolserver lag is too high, the linked Toolserver tools won't be reliable. You can try to keep track of the bot's global editcount instead (good luck).
If you're sure that you'll not send duplicate messages, you can set the status page to "Really start" instead of "Start", overriding the key check. The bot will check the key on each page and will skip the pages that already have a message with the same key.
# KEY
0458
# RECIPIENTS (PAGE LIST)
Global message delivery/Targets/Wikimedia Highlights
# SUBJECT
''Wikimedia Highlights'' from April 2013
# BODY
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''[[m:Wikimedia Highlights|Highlights]] from the '''[[m:Wikimedia Foundation Report, April 2013|Wikimedia Foundation Report]]''' and the '''[[mw:Wikimedia engineering report/2013/April|Wikimedia engineering report]]''' for April 2013, with a selection of other important '''events from the Wikimedia movement'''''</div>[[File:Wikimedia_Foundation_RGB_logo_with_text.svg|80px|right]]
*[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#Wikimedia Foundation highlights|Wikimedia Foundation highlights]]
**[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#New notifications system launches on the English Wikipedia|New notifications system launches on the English Wikipedia]]
**[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#Wikidata's content can now be used on all Wikipedias|Wikidata's content can now be used on all Wikipedias]]
**[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#Wikimedia Commons app announced for iOS and Android|Wikimedia Commons app announced for iOS and Android]]
**[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) publishes its recommendations about $1.2 million|Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) publishes its recommendations about $1.2 million]]
**[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#New conflict of interest guidelines|New conflict of interest guidelines]]
*[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#Data and Trends|Data and Trends]]
*[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#Financials|Financials]]
*[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#Other movement highlights|Other movement highlights]]
**[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#Chapters conference and GLAM-Wiki events|Chapters conference and GLAM-Wiki events]]
**[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#Students create the first online Arabic-Serbian dictionary|Students create the first online Arabic-Serbian dictionary]]
**[[m:Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#"Wiki Loves Sound" enriches Wikipedia with audio recordings|"Wiki Loves Sound" enriches Wikipedia with audio recordings]]
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'''[[m:Wikimedia Highlights|About]]''' · [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Wikimedia Highlights|Subscribe/unsubscribe]] · Distributed via [[m:Global message delivery|Global message delivery]], ~~~~~
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