Quim is this something that could be completed this calendar year? Would it need to be in the next Annual Plan?
Pine
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:39:40 -0800 From: Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org To: ee@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [EE] Newsletters Message-ID: 52D37C1C.2000905@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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...
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil