Rupert raises an interesting point. How many people prefer such mailing list announcements of new reports to include a plaintext version of the report itself?

With the general monthly WMF report, we are always including a plaintext version (example: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2012-September/0004... ). But it's a bit of an overhead and we have been wondering if it is worthwhile. (One possible benefit, besides better readability on mobile devices according to Rupert, is that one can search the report in one's inbox together with other mailing list postings.)

So hands up, who else reads or uses these plaintext email versions of such reports, and wants to see them included in the future?

(Separately, there is the possibility of sending full HTML versions by email. This is something we started doing, somewhat experimentally, for the Wikimedia Research Newsletter - see https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter - but I assume this would not be desirable or acceptable for this list.)

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:18 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:

Salut guillome, ca serait possible de avoir cette mail avec le contenue directe aussi? Ca se lit plus facilement avec un portable.

Rupert. Am 04.09.2012 20:42 schrieb "Guillaume Paumier" gpaumier@wikimedia.org:

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Hi,

The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in August 2012 is now available.

Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/August Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/04/engineering-august-2012-report/

-- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation https://donate.wikimedia.org

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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:

Tilman Bayer, 05/09/2012 02:52:

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Rupert raises an interesting point. How many people prefer such mailing list announcements of new reports to include a plaintext version of the report itself?

Usually I'm very more likely to read something if it's directly in the email, however long; a link means "oh, more work, must be something long, of unknown length" (I don't see it), requires one more click, and finally the click just sends the reading to the queue together with the other dozens tabs open in the browser. That said, a good compromise is, I found, to just include the HTML from the wiki page. HTML emails are horrible (and I usually fail at sending them) but converting wikitext to a readable email plaintext is horrible too.

I'm happy to do that, but do Wikimedia mailing lists support HTML e-mails?