Maniphest T203071

Allow the notification of deleted old translations to users missing a local account
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	Pginer-WMF
	Aug 29 2018, 10:20 AM

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As part of the effort to remove old translation drafts (T183890), we want to send users different notifications.

Content Translation allows users to translate from any language into any language and users need an account to use the tool, but that account may not exist in all wikis. There is no guarantee that an account attached to the global user account exists on the wiki where we run the script, unless that is loginwiki where I suppose everyone has one, but CX is not installed there.

As described in T199960#4541334 one option is to run the scripts on each Wikipedia and filter per target or source language. We can also ask Growth-Team for advice.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Modify purge-unpublished-drafts to only purge in current wiki	mediawiki/extensions/ContentTranslation	master	+61 -4

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T203059: Fourth manual run of unpublished draft purge script
T199960: Draft purge script should not fail when sending notification is failed
Mentioned Here: T183890: Remove very old translation drafts from CX database
T199960: Draft purge script should not fail when sending notification is failed

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Pginer-WMF created this task.Aug 29 2018, 10:20 AM

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Pginer-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Aug 29 2018, 10:22 AM

Pginer-WMF mentioned this in T199960: Draft purge script should not fail when sending notification is failed.

KartikMistry subscribed.Aug 29 2018, 11:17 AM

My question for Growth: is there a way to send a notification to a user in a different wiki?

If not, then I think the best option is to run this script on all Wikipedias separately. That shouldn't be very difficult with foreachwikiindblist and small changes to the script itself.

Pginer-WMF added a subscriber: JTannerWMF.Aug 29 2018, 11:48 AM

Pginer-WMF moved this task from Needs Triage to Bugs on the ContentTranslation board.Aug 29 2018, 1:14 PM

In T203071#4541883, @Nikerabbit wrote:

My question for Growth: is there a way to send a notification to a user in a different wiki?

Not directly, no. There are various ways you could do this yourself (e.g. have one script that generates a list of wiki+user pairs to notify, and a second script that sends the actual notifications), but there's no infrastructure to help you.

Pginer-WMF added a project: Language-2018-Oct-December.Sep 3 2018, 9:22 AM

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Pginer-WMF mentioned this in T203059: Fourth manual run of unpublished draft purge script.Oct 1 2018, 10:44 AM

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Pginer-WMF raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Nov 26 2018, 11:06 AM

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Nikerabbit moved this task from Maintenance backlog to In Review on the Language-Team (Language-2018-October-December) board.

Change 476046 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nikerabbit; owner: Nikerabbit):
[mediawiki/extensions/ContentTranslation@master] Modify purge-unpublished-drafts to only purge in current wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/476046

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 27 2018, 4:14 PM

Change 476046 merged by KartikMistry:
[mediawiki/extensions/ContentTranslation@master] Modify purge-unpublished-drafts to only purge in current wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/476046

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