Thread:Extension talk:MassMessage/Default accoount name/reply (7)

For the name of the user who is sending the massmessage, I wondered why choose a system account instead of the real massmessage sender user (this is a design question); I understand a point is the sender could possibly be non-existant on the receiving wiki (apart wikis belonging to a same CentralAuth system).

In the case this is a system account which delivers the message, my original point was indeed the name displayed in the notification box of Echo. I quickly checked the Echo code, and I guess it is currently not possible to display another name in place of the real user (here MediaWiki message delivery), because there is only one User object in the EchoEvent object and no "on-behalf-of" user and the EchoEvent::BeforeEchoEventInsert hook cannot change the underlying object. So if it would be useful for MassMessage (I think so), a feature request should be filled for Echo.

Quiddity, about your proposition of standardizing the footer, I think it would be really useful for translation purposes. I think it could be already possible by removing the comment markup of MediaWiki:Massmessage-hidden-comment, although this message was not originally intended to be viewed by the user.