On 09/16/2013 10:30 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Yeah, any extension can use Echo for notifications.
I'm thinking of adding this idea to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
Do you think that the amount and complexity of work of
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newsletter
fits with an internship or an Individual Engagement Grant project (3 months of one person approx)
This is definitely a useful feature for any MediaWiki site. It may help keeping in touch with users registering but not used to a routine of logging in and check their watchlist and new messages. It may be also useful to reach to regular users through an exceptional channel for an exceptional reason.
Within Wikimedia, I can see WikiProjects and even whole sites like Meta, Outreach or small Wikipedias willing to have it. As a mediawiki.org admin I believe we could make good use of it.