Pine W wrote:
There is the https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce email list which perhaps could be used for emailing the weekly tech newsletters and major changes.
There's also the mediawiki-announce list. While new mailing lists are cheap enough to create, I don't think a new list is warranted here. I think the better approach, as mentioned, is to focus on improving documentation and error reporting.
MZMcBride