Hi folks,
Just a quick note to let you know that we just released Notifications on another batch of wiki sites today: Catalan, Danish, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Telugu, Ukrainian and Vietnamese Wikipedias. (1)
We also released a couple bug fixes, including a long-awaited improvement to HTML email notifications on mobile phones (2), where messages are now easier to read than before.
The Echo extension has now been successfully deployed on over two dozen Wikipedias, where notifications have been really well received (1). Going forward, we plan to significantly increase the number of sites for each release, as outlined in this Echo release plan:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Release_Plan_2013
Note that we will consolidate future releases every two weeks from now on. For example, we plan to deploy on two dozen more sites on October 8th (e.g. Chinese, Greek, Turkish Wikipedias). And we aim to release notifications on most 'sister projects' on October 22 (e.g.: Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiquote, Wiktionary).
Many thanks to our developer Benny Situ and community liaison Keegan Peterzell for making these deployments possible. :)
Enjoy ...
Fabrice
(1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Release_Plan_2013#Completed
(2) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53057
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation