I have a vague recollection of discussing this before with someone (Steven?)
I'd love to see this done, but one caveat - since it effectively means
a weekly message to them, some clear way to unsubscribe would be
needed, preferably without the technically complex solution of "edit
this page, find your username, remove it".
Thinking ahead...
There's around a dozen projects both on enwiki and elsewhere that have
active newsletters, as well - the most obvious is the research
newsletter, but This Month In GLAM, some wikiproject-specific
newsletters, etc etc. A single easy way to sign up for more than one
of these, plus other opt-in messaging services like SuggestBot, would
be very nice.
For more advanced users, if we had such an interface, you could add
features like the randomised RFC recruitment feature.
But starting with the Signpost sounds great :-). I recommend you talk
to Ed (user:the_ed17) ASAP if you're interested in pushing ahead with
something like this.
Andrew.
On 6 September 2013 07:25, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we
automatically sign up users for
Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up
for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific
newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the
broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests.
Pine
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