Great ideas and great news, Fabrice and the Echo team!
Best,
Michael
2013/3/26 Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
We just deployed two cool new Echo notifications on
MediaWiki.org, for
your testing pleasure:
• Thanks
• User rights
Here are more details on these features, along with a quick project update.
*1. Today's new features*
The Thanks feature lets you send a 'Thank you' notification to users who
make constructive edits, to give them positive feedback. To use it, simply
click on the 'Thank' link on any article history page (or diff page), for
an edit by a logged in user (next to 'Undo'). This sends a private
notification to the user who made that edit. We created this simple
notification to invite new users to participate more often, by providing
them with positive feedback during their first steps on Wikipedia.
Currently, new users mostly receive negative responses like edit reversions
or confusing template messages -- and this feature aims to reward
constructive edits with 'micro-gratitude', to lead new users towards a
'happy path' of productive contributions. Read more about this feature here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#Thank_you_notificat…
The User rights notification is sent when your user rights have changed --
whether you are being granted a new right, or whether someone removes a
user right you used to have. This new feature was requested by power users
in the English Wikipedia community, who wanted a way to find out quickly
about these important changes to their accounts. (Email me if you would
like help to test this feature.) Read more here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#User_rights
To test Echo and these new features, follow the tips on this testing page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)/Testing
If you experience any issues with either feature, please email us --
or file a bug here on Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…
*2. Next features*
Our next Echo deployment on
MediaWiki.org will be this Thursday, March
28th, when we aim to release these features, if all goes well:
• 'Get Started' notification (from the E3 team)
• Bundling
• JobQueue
• HTML Email
Learn more on our feature requirements page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements
*3. English Wikipedia Release*
We are aiming for a first limited release on the English Wikipedia in
early April, if all goes well. The tentative date right now is the week of
April 8th, when Aaron's new version of JobQueue for Redis is expected to be
deployed on en-wiki (we hope to test it first on MediaWiki next week).
For Echo's first English Wikipedia release, our main focus will be on
supporting new users, who will have both web and email notifications
enabled by default. Current users will only have web notifications turned
on by default, but will be able to opt-in to get email notifications as
well. These goals may be adjusted to reduce the number of users who
initially get access to the tool, if needed for technical reasons.
You can track our progress with this first release on this project
timeline:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq_75_5y5sKWdF…
We'll send another Echo project update next Thursday.In the meantime, let
us know what you think of the tool -- either via email on this list, or on
this Echo testing talk page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Echo_(Notifications)/Testing
Onward!
Fabrice, Kaldari, Benny, Luke, Vibha and the Echo team
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Editor Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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