[Wikia-l] Emails about watchlist etc: incorrect user rights change notices

Tue Nov 11 00:26:47 UTC 2008

Thank you for the progress with deleted pages. I
guess we shouldn't quibble about being still told
to "See http://ikariam.wikia.com/wiki/High_score
for the current version." .

However, we can still get incorrect "user rights
change" emails. I've had two; others have reported
them. Here's my latest:

Dear Robin Patterson,

Your user rights on Ikariam have been changed.

See http://ikariam.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Log for
a log of all recent
changes.

Please visit and edit often...

Ikariam

Fact: SOMEONE ELSE had a change; I haven't had one
for months; quoting from the abovementioned log
(with the user rights filter):

(Latest | Earliest) View (previous 200) (next 200)
(20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)

    * 2008-11-11T04:42:07 Jrooksjr (Talk |
contribs | block) changed group membership for
User:Eliria from (none) to Sysops and rollback ‎
(to make it easier on Spam cleanup - even on
Locked pages)
    * 2008-11-05T09:05:26 Jrooksjr (Talk |
contribs | block) changed group membership for
User:Bloodhound from rollback and Sysops to
rollback, Sysops and Bureaucrats ‎ (he is more
active than Jammmie999, Robin Patterson or I are
at the moment )
    * 2008-08-02T15:11:26 Jrooksjr (Talk |
contribs | block) changed group membership for
User:Chupchup from rollback to rollback and Sysops
‎ (due to vandalism problems - they need sysop
abilities to edit some pages)
    * 2008-08-02T15:11:05 Jrooksjr (Talk |
contribs | block) changed group membership for
User:Scaremonger from rollback to rollback and
Sysops ‎ (due to vandalism problems - they need
sysop abilities to edit some pages)
    * 2008-08-02T15:07:32 Jrooksjr (Talk |
contribs | block) changed group membership for
User:Robin Patterson from rollback and Sysops to
rollback, Sysops and Bureaucrats...

[Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026,
New Zealand
Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
cooperative MediaWiki site

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sannse" <sannse at gmail.com>
To: "Central Wikia Mailing List"
<wikia-l at wikia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] Email about watchlist is
still not perfect

> OK, so problem reports are now giving sensible
emails... and I /think/
> that's all the relevant actions.  The India one
is still unclear, that
> seems to be a glitch.  TOR is looking at
database stuff to see why
> that one was sent.
>
> Please let me know if you get any more strange
ones, in particular if
> you get a mail saying a page has been created
when it's not a new
> page.
>
> Thanks
>
> -- sannse
>
> Lisa "sannse" Carter
> Wikia Community and Technical Team
> http://www.wikia.com
>
> 2008/11/10 sannse <sannse at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Robin,
> >
> > We seem to have got most of this figured
out... when a page is deleted
> > you will now get an email that actually says
so... and the same for
> > other actions such as page creation,
protection, and so on.
> >
> > The remaining problems are that some people
seem to be getting emails
> > for problem reports (which say the page is
created) and this one where
> > the user doesn't seem to have done anything!
Most strange.
> >
> > TOR and I are trying to work out what's going
on here... hopefully
> > this last glitch will go soon.
> >
> > -- sannse
> >
> > Lisa "sannse" Carter
> > Wikia Community and Technical Team
> > http://www.wikia.com
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Robin-P
<Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> >> Here's an email I received about an hour ago:
> >>
> >> Subject: India page Main Page has been
created by
> >> anonymous user 65.113.40.1
> >>
> >> Dear Robin Patterson,
> >>
> >> There has been an edit to a page you are
watching
> >> on India.
> >>
> >> See http://india.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page for
the
> >> current version.
> >>
> >> This is a new page.
> >>
> >> The summary of the edit is: " - "
> >>
> >> Please visit and edit often...
> >>
> >> India
> >>
> >> ___________________________________________
> >> * Have you checked out our hubs?
> >> <http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Hubs>
> >>
> >> * Want to control which emails you receive?
> >> Go to:
> >>
http://india.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Preferences.
> >>
> >>
> >> And here's the up-to-the-minute last pair of
items
> >> in the page history. It is far from being a
new
> >> page, as the email says, and it has not
apparently
> >> been edited recently.
> >>
> >> # cur) (last)  2008-09-27T05:02:01 Robin
Patterson
> >> (Talk | contribs) (6,388 bytes) (Undo
deletionist
> >> revision 6374 by 209.85.138.136 (talk))
(undo)
> >> # (cur) (last) 2008-09-26T23:51:26
209.85.138.136
> >> (Talk) (5,399 bytes) ($B"*(BWelcome to
Wikindia)
> >>
> >>
> >> [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
> >> 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City
5026,
> >> New Zealand
> >> Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since
1974
> >> http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
> >> And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
> >> cooperative MediaWiki site
> >>
> >>
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