[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Allow users to send mail inviting their friends to join a wiki.
Users should be able to invite other people to join their wiki by sending email made with a template. They should be able to add a message. There should be a template message which tells what the invitation is about. They should be taken to the registration application (their email address can be filled in as long as <> " ' \ characters are escaped to prevent XSS) There should be a mechanism to store the ip addresses/user names of those who send the email and a link in the email to report spam so the service is not abused. I would like to make it an application if possible. Your thoughts? Caleb
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 14:45, Caleb James DeLisle <[email protected]> wrote:
Users should be able to invite other people to join their wiki by sending email made with a template.
They should be able to add a message.
There should be a template message which tells what the invitation is about.
They should be taken to the registration application (their email address can be filled in as long as <> " ' \ characters are escaped to prevent XSS)
There should be a mechanism to store the ip addresses/user names of those who send the email and a link in the email to report spam so the service is not abused.
I would like to make it an application if possible.
Your thoughts?
Sounds a general good idea (not sure about the details, I would have to think more about it). Do you plan to reuse/refactor the invitationmanager plugin ?
Caleb
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I took a look at the InvitationManager and decided that it does a lot more than I think is needed for users of XE to invite their friends to join. InvitationManager is closely related to and dependent on SpaceManager which is based on the idea of an individual space being something one may be a member of and members having roles within a space. I would like to create a new application with multiple parts, there will be a part which a user will interact with when inviting friends. This part will be controlled by the local wiki admin who will get record of all invitations sent and by whom. When an invitation is sent, it will send the request to a part controlled by the global wiki admin who will also have record. It is important to me that this system cannot be arbitraged to send spam email. Emails will be created using a template, the local admin will be able to provide a list of templates for the user to choose from but all data will be made the content of a template controlled by the global admin. The global admin's template will contain the links for the invitee to accept the invitation or report it as spam. + Invitees will not be asked to fill out a captcha even if captchas are enabled. + The only part which will send mail is the part controlled by the global admin. + Admins can use regex filters to prevent email content from containing such things as macros. What do you think? Caleb * Why an application and not a module? I think this is a job for an application because I can think of no use other than inviting friends I don't think it is a wise decision to add api for the sole purpose of allowing friends to be invited. Thomas Mortagne wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 14:45, Caleb James DeLisle <[email protected]> wrote:
Users should be able to invite other people to join their wiki by sending email made with a template.
They should be able to add a message.
There should be a template message which tells what the invitation is about.
They should be taken to the registration application (their email address can be filled in as long as <> " ' \ characters are escaped to prevent XSS)
There should be a mechanism to store the ip addresses/user names of those who send the email and a link in the email to report spam so the service is not abused.
I would like to make it an application if possible.
Your thoughts?
Sounds a general good idea (not sure about the details, I would have to think more about it). Do you plan to reuse/refactor the invitationmanager plugin ?
Caleb
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Hi Caleb, On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
Users should be able to invite other people to join their wiki by sending email made with a template.
They should be able to add a message.
There should be a template message which tells what the invitation is about.
They should be taken to the registration application (their email address can be filled in as long as <> " ' \ characters are escaped to prevent XSS)
There should be a mechanism to store the ip addresses/user names of those who send the email and a link in the email to report spam so the service is not abused.
I would like to make it an application if possible.
Your thoughts?
Sounds good to me. You should have a look at the oldish invitation manager plugin so that we encompass its features (but built using the new architecture if possible). http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/xwiki-plugins/trunk/invitationma... Jerome Velociter was its author (AFAIR) so he should be able to tell you more about it. Thanks -Vincent
Hi Caleb, On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Caleb James DeLisle < [email protected]> wrote:
Users should be able to invite other people to join their wiki by sending email made with a template.
I like the idea ;-)
They should be able to add a message.
There should be a template message which tells what the invitation is about.
They should be taken to the registration application (their email address can be filled in as long as <> " ' \ characters are escaped to prevent XSS)
There should be a mechanism to store the ip addresses/user names of those who send the email and a link in the email to report spam so the service is not abused.
I would like to make it an application if possible.
Yep, that sounds good to me. One thing to maybe keep in mind would be to let the wiki admin decide whether any user can invite another or whether the invitation right should be restricted to admins / editors.
Your thoughts?
There are 2 basic use cases I can see: - An "invite" panel that basically lets any wiki user invite someone else to the wiki - An "invite" section in the administration that lets an admin invite a lot of people at once (in an organization for instance) Both use cases (single invite and mailing-list invite) were covered by the invitation manager plugin so it might be worth a look. Guillaule Caleb
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