> From: Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org>
> To: ee@lists.wikimedia.org, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier@wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [EE] Newsletters (call for GSoC 2014)
> Message-ID: <52F288C2.6040703@wikimedia.org>
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> On 01/21/2014 04:46 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
> > On 01/19/2014 01:36 PM, ENWP Pine wrote:
> >> Quim is this something that could be completed this calendar
> >> year? Would it need to be in the next Annual Plan?
> >
> > Having no budget and not being at the Product or Features teams, it is
> > very easy for me to speak. :) :((
> >
> > So far Newsletters don't seem to be in any WMF roadmap and I have no
> > intention (neither good arguments) to challenge the current plans.
> >
> > Then again, this looks like a project that could be developed by someone
> > else independently. Maybe this is a good GSoC / OPW project? If a
> > technical mentor is interested, I would be happy volunteering as product
> > mentor - tester - community liaison - stakeholder - younameit.
>
> The time to collect GSoC 2014 project proposals is now, see
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-February/074277.html
>
> Guillaume and me think that this feature would be extremely beneficial
> to improve the communication of Wikimedia and MediaWiki projects. If a
> developer volunteers as mentor, we are happy to help co-mentoring from
> the product / community sides.
>
>
> > With Newsletters and Flow evolved, many MediaWikis could start
> > forgetting about outsourcing their most basic communication to Mailman.
> >
> >
> >>> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:39:40 -0800
> >>> From: Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org>
> >>> To: ee@lists.wikimedia.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [EE] Newsletters
> >>> Message-ID: <52D37C1C.2000905@wikimedia.org>
> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On 01/06/2014 09:00 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> >>>> On 01/04/2014 01:35 AM, ENWP Pine wrote:
> >>>>> Happy new year, EE.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How is the Newsletter extension coming along? The most recent
> >> discussion
> >>>>> on the talk page appears to be from September.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't think anyone is currently working on this. Siebrand and Quim
> >>>> started https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newsletter , but there
> >>>> has only been one commit.
> >>>
> >>> When MassMessage appeared I thought it could be worth trying to find a
> >>> way to extend it satisfying the needs of newsletter publishers and
> >>> subscribers. For instance, see
> >>>
> >>> Bug 57935 - Handling MassMessage subscription through user preferences
> >>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57935
> >>>
> >>> Bug 57937 - Option to subscribe new users to MassMessage by default
> >>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57937
> >>>
> >>> Bug 57473 - MassMessage should support using a category as an input list
> >>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57473
> >>>
> >>> However, according to Legoktm this might be a too long shot.
> >>>
> >>> Another possibility (probably the right one, but afaik nobody is working
> >>> in this direction) is to have a pure Echo plugin with an interface to
> >>> handle subscriptions, channels, and a couple of roles.
> >>>
> >>> I still think Wikimedia and the MediaWiki community will benefit a lot
> >>> from this feature...
> >
>
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
>

Thanks for pushing this along.

I also have an idea for a bot that would save
about 150 volunteer hours each year on English
Wikipedia. Is bot development within the
scope of GSoC?

Pine