[Wikitech-l] RELEASE INFO -- Push Notifications

Hi all, *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_Infrastr… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product_Infrastructure_team/Push_N… [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Push_notifications Best, -- Seve Kim *(he/him)* Sr. Technical Product Manager <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> *"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."*