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(a)wikimedia.org>
To: ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [EE] Newsletters
Message-ID: <52D37C1C.2000905(a)wikimedia.org>
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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...