Allow configuring talk page messages for registered and unregistered users separately
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	Samwalton9-WMF
	Mar 20 2025, 9:27 AM

Description

This is a request we received from one of our pilot wikis - they would like to be able to have Automoderator send talk page messages to registered users, but not send them to unregistered users.

Acceptance Criteria

Create community configuration boolean field for "Don't send talk page messages to anonymous/temp users" (wording TBD)
add guard clause to early return if true before sending talk page message
maintain current behavior by default
add variable to documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AutoModerator

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Add config for sending talk page messages to named users only	mediawiki/extensions/AutoModerator	master	+215 -12

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: rEAMO8c3d6b543023: Add config for sending talk page messages to named users only
Mentioned Here: T410670: Fix AutoModerator on testwiki

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Change #1199077 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dillon; author: Dillon):

[mediawiki/extensions/AutoModerator@master] Add config for sending talk page messages to named users only

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1199077

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@Samwalton9-WMF @OTichonova Is this wording okay?

We probably shouldn't write "anonymous or temporary" - soon all non logged in users will be temporary accounts. I think rewriting the button label could be self-explanatory, without requiring help text? Open to thoughts.

Only send talk pages to registered users

In T389465#11327313, @Samwalton9-WMF wrote:

We probably shouldn't write "anonymous or temporary" - soon all non logged in users will be temporary accounts. I think rewriting the button label could be self-explanatory, without requiring help text? Open to thoughts.

Only send talk pages to registered users

It will be sending messages or? So 'Only send talk page messages to registered users'? Or both of them combined 'Send talk page messages to registered users only'?

In T389465#11327354, @OTichonova wrote:

In T389465#11327313, @Samwalton9-WMF wrote:

We probably shouldn't write "anonymous or temporary" - soon all non logged in users will be temporary accounts. I think rewriting the button label could be self-explanatory, without requiring help text? Open to thoughts.

Only send talk pages to registered users

It will be sending messages or? So 'Only send talk page messages to registered users'? Or both of them combined 'Send talk page messages to registered users only'?

Ha, yep, I missed a word. 'Only send talk page messages to registered users' sounds good to me.

Sounds good! I would recommend switching 'only' to the end of the sentence, as the flow 'Send talk page messages to registered users only' make the action, object, and restriction clear for translators.

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Change #1199077 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/AutoModerator@master] Add config for sending talk page messages to named users only

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1199077

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