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]
