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Some MassMessages not reaching various WMF wikis
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The page https://cy.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wicillyfrau:Y_Lolfa has been listed on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery for several years, however there is no record of MassMessages posts that are targeted to all wikis.

https://cy.wikibooks.org/wiki/Arbennig:Contributions/MediaWiki_message_delivery indicates that not many messages reach cywikibooks. Is there something set up wrong with the Project namespace or some other bug preventing messages from being posted?

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Aklapper renamed this task from Some MassMessages not reaching cywikibooks to Some MassMessages not reaching various wikis.Aug 2 2022, 7:50 PM

And also https://sk.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiknihy:Klub.

Is it possible that there is some sort of timing out that happens with editing a long page?

Dreamy_Jazz subscribed.

@Rschen7754 if you see the log for the pages that the messages are failing to go to this usually tells you why the message is not being posted. In a few I've seen:

Delivery of "MassMessage" to Page was skipped because target was in a namespace that cannot be posted in

This means that on the projects listed the non-talk namespaces that have targets have not been defined as okay to post content to using a config. This means that these servers do not have the right config set. This means that, unless I've missed something, this needs a WMF production configuration change.

Alternatively, a new config could be made that allows exclusions to the namespace restriction.

What needs to be addressed is:

Dreamy_Jazz renamed this task from Some MassMessages not reaching various wikis to Some MassMessages not reaching various WMF wikis.Dec 15 2022, 12:04 PM
Dreamy_Jazz changed the subtype of this task from "Bug Report" to "Task".Dec 15 2022, 1:18 PM

From what I can see none of these examples are the cause of a bug. All seem to be intended features preventing posting, and as such changing this to a normal task.

I've made a subtask to allow whitelisting certain pages so that MassMessage can post there regardless of all rules other than the MassMessage category.

@Dreamy_Jazz thanks for looking into this. The master list of all the pages is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery. (I'm having issues pasting the links in my browser).

I hesitate to move established community portals so I suspect this would have to be addressed in a config change.