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Bug 59190 - Special:MassMessage error page isn't very helpful and can't easily be made helpful
Special:MassMessage error page isn't very helpful and can't easily be made he...
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
MassMessage (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...
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Reported: 2014-01-01 20:08 UTC by MZMcBride
Modified: 2014-01-02 00:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description MZMcBride 2014-01-01 20:08:38 UTC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MassMessage

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Permission error
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You do not have permission to send a message to multiple users at once, for the following reason:

The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, Mass message senders.
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This feels a bit obtuse and the options for customizing the error message seem limited.
Comment 1 Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) 2014-01-02 00:54:44 UTC
This is the standard MediaWiki error message when you try accessing a special page you don't have permission to see.

What more information do you want to add? I don't think it would be difficult to add a blank custom message above the error message.
Comment 2 MZMcBride 2014-01-02 00:56:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> This is the standard MediaWiki error message when you try accessing a special
> page you don't have permission to see.

Right.

> What more information do you want to add? I don't think it would be difficult
> to add a blank custom message above the error message.

Currently the error message provides two links, one to [[Wikipedia:Administrators]] and one to [[Wikipedia:Mass message senders]]. This is what I think is a bit obtuse. The person hitting this error likely wants to answer "how can I send out a mass message?" so they'd likely really want a link to [[mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage]] or a local equivalent documentation page.

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