> 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>
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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...
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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