[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

Sat Aug 8 10:30:55 UTC 2009

Cormac Lawler wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:05 AM, <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'm sorry you got an email that bothered you.  Trust me, we try to make
>> sure no one is bothered by them.  Sometimes people fall through the cracks,
>> and I'm sorry that was the case here and in a few other cases.
> 
> 
> I'm supposedly one who fell through the cracks. <shrug>
> 
> Have to say though, I was impressed by being invited to vote in elections
> for the board, "which operates projects such as Wikiversity". I don't know
> how you can specify a person's main project in this script (nor do I
> need/want to know) - but just to give praise where praise is due. :-)
> 

The list of eligible voters contain the internal database name &/or the 
url of the wiki the voter is from. It's a simple case of parsing that to 
personalise the email with the main project name. :-)

KTC

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