Forum:Using bots on Message Walls

It's been a while since I looked into the Message Wall. It has the ability to consolidate messages together, which is the same thing I do on talk pages (I leave responses on the same page so the entire conversation can be read in on place). We haven't activated it on the main wiki I'm an admin for because we use a bot to add a new message on user talk pages that notifies them that a new issue of our newsletter has been published.

If I remember right, Wikia wasn't sure if bots were going to work with the new Message Wall, but that was about 6 months ago. Does anybody know if they got an answer as to whether it is or is not compatible? If it is and you know how to set it up in AWB, let me know. I tried the "append text" function on a test wiki I have and it didn't work, but I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or if it just won't work at all.

If the Message Wall is not compatible with any bot program (AWB or otherwise), then we need to figure out a completely different way of doing our newsletter because from what I read, the Message Wall will probably go into effect globally sometime this year. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 06:07, March 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Currently AWB and Pybot are incompatible with the message wall. I know Monchoman45 built his own bot capable of making article comments. Not sure if that would work for Message Wall as well.--

I snooped around Wall.js a little and this is the key part of postNewMessage:

Whether "WallExternalController" is a URL parameter or a script name, I don't know. I haven't taken a look at Nirvana yet. The rest is pretty self-explanatory though. -- Pecoes 07:08, March 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Experimenting is fine, but it seems a safer answer would come from Wikia staff. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 13 Mar 2012 1:14 PM Pacific
 * Possibly. I'm not planning anything. I was merely curious and figured I might as well share what I've found. -- Pecoes 22:31, March 13, 2012 (UTC)