Hi all,

Summary 
Push Notifications are now available to enable on all wikis for Android & iOS Wikipedia apps 

Background:

• Wikimedia Product teams needed a new way to drive user engagement and retention for features like "Thank You's" and "Edit Reminders"
• Similar to web and email notifications, editors receive quick notifications outside of using the native apps
  
• Push notifications are a way to send messages to user devices without the user engaging with the application
• The Product Infrastructure team[1] designed and built the underlying infrastructure[2] to provide the push notification capability for other product teams to leverage
• This first release of v1.0.0 provides the following features:
• App users can now receive notifications sooner, even when the app is not currently running
• App users can subscribe and unsubscribe to receive Echo notifications
• Echo can send messages to the user via native Wikipedia apps for Android and iOS
• The system can limit the rate and volume of messages to prevent server overload
• Invalid subscriptions are automatically removed from the system upon notification request failure
  
• You can find more information on our MediaWiki[2] and WikiTech pages[3]

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product/Wikimedia_Product_Infrastructure_team

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product_Infrastructure_team/Push_Notifications_Infrastructure

[3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Push_notifications

Best,

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Seve Kim (he/him)

Sr. Technical Product Manager "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."

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