Upon account creation or in your user profile: "Send me important email
updates"
You have seen this feature in many collaborative sites, but not in
Wikimedia sites. Unless I'm missing something, this common feature
doesn't seem to be available in MediaWiki core or through extensions.
Users can get notifications based on activity on wiki pages and they can
also get emails from another users, but is there a way for an admin to
send an update or a newsletter via email to all users that ticked the box?
While new users will be hardly used to watchlists or user talk pages,
and while it will be difficult for them to find the Wikimedia blog, The
Signpost, etc... all of them have email and a nice % would be happy to
receive emails from time to time with interesting information. Has this
option been discussed?
PS: as a
mediawiki.org admin I wish we had something like this to engage
new and old contributors.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil