A condition to win anything at WLM is that people have an email address set in their preferences. It happens often that they do not, and that causes problems down the line. When that is caught weeks later, it is too late as people are likely not checking the wiki.
Solution: a bot that detects on upload (as early as possible) that the uploader has not set his email, and leaves them a message on the talk page.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | JeanFred | T195341 Post message to WLM participants who have not registered an email address | |||
| Open | None | T70876 Make user_email_authenticated status visible on labs |
I investigated this today. It’s doable via the API, and it’s implemented by Pywikibot as user.emailable()
However this would be much easier via database queries, so tentatively marking this as blocked by T70876: Make user_email_authenticated status visible on labs
Here is a draft message to be posted on the talk page:
I just threw the text together in 5 minutes ; would be awesome to get some proofreading. Then we can ask for translations.
Change 532798 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jean-Frédéric; owner: Jean-Frédéric):
[labs/tools/heritage@master] Add Python script checking and notify non-emailable users
I think the text needs some minor tweaks (not sure where to find it on wiki within the template structure):
It's not a requirement to provide an email address to enter the contest, only to win a prize. Many contestants don't provide an email as they just want to help Wikipedia and aren't interested in the prizes. We don't want to put those people off. Suggest the header should be changed to
"Please enable e-mail to be eligible to win a prize in Wiki Loves Monuments
Most entrants are new and don't understand Commons at all. They won't be able to follow the relatively complex instructions on the linked Commons page. By all means keep the link, but also set out really, really clearly what the user has to do. I suggest this:
"Thank you for uploading images for Wiki Loves Monuments!
However, we have noticed you have not enabled e-mail. To be eligible to win a prize, you must enable e-mail.
This is what you need to do:
Please edit the text directly at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:WLM-enable-email/i18n&action=edit :)
Change 532798 merged by jenkins-bot:
[labs/tools/heritage@master] Add Python script checking and notify non-emailable users
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2019-09-02T17:54:54Z] <JeanFred> Deploy latest from Git master: 33f4635, fd60416 (T195341)
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2019-09-08T21:46:04Z] <JeanFred> Deploy latest from Git master: 5455f76, 07eebf8 (T195341), 3cb734b
Change 537475 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jean-Frédéric; owner: Jean-Frédéric):
[labs/tools/heritage@master] Add command-line flag to notify users in check_emailable_users.py
Change 537476 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jean-Frédéric; owner: Jean-Frédéric):
[labs/tools/heritage@master] Append message to talk page in
Change 537475 merged by jenkins-bot:
[labs/tools/heritage@master] Add command-line flag to notify users in check_emailable_users.py
Change 537476 merged by jenkins-bot:
[labs/tools/heritage@master] Append message to talk page in
Pfew, took me two weeks to actually test that script ; found a bug, fixed it, now we’d be good to go.
Example edit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/366575667
Ran check_emailable_users.py -category:"Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019" -delta:27360 -notify (to cover the last 18 days of competition. Took 4h.
There were 3454 uploaders in the last 27360 minutes... ...and 1139 non-emailable users
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2019-09-18T20:52:52Z] <wm-bot> <jeanfred> check_emailable_users.py -category:"Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019" -delta:540 -notify (T195341)
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2019-09-20T19:49:15Z] <wm-bot> <jeanfred> Added crontab (*/3 - every three minutes) for T195341