As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we automatically sign up users for Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests.
Pine
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:25 PM, ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote:
As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we automatically sign up users for Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests.
Pine
Before we do that, let's make Signpost delivery a notification (i.e. instead of dropping it on your talk page, just notify you when a new edition is released). Then it's quite easy to opt everyone in, new or existing.
On Sep 5, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:25 PM, ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote: As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we automatically sign up users for Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests.
Pine
Before we do that, let's make Signpost delivery a notification (i.e. instead of dropping it on your talk page, just notify you when a new edition is released). Then it's quite easy to opt everyone in, new or existing.
+1 excellent idea
I have a vague recollection of discussing this before with someone (Steven?)
I'd love to see this done, but one caveat - since it effectively means a weekly message to them, some clear way to unsubscribe would be needed, preferably without the technically complex solution of "edit this page, find your username, remove it".
Thinking ahead...
There's around a dozen projects both on enwiki and elsewhere that have active newsletters, as well - the most obvious is the research newsletter, but This Month In GLAM, some wikiproject-specific newsletters, etc etc. A single easy way to sign up for more than one of these, plus other opt-in messaging services like SuggestBot, would be very nice.
For more advanced users, if we had such an interface, you could add features like the randomised RFC recruitment feature.
But starting with the Signpost sounds great :-). I recommend you talk to Ed (user:the_ed17) ASAP if you're interested in pushing ahead with something like this.
Andrew.
On 6 September 2013 07:25, ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote:
As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we automatically sign up users for Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests.
Pine
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