On 5 December 2013 13:08, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com wrote:
The sites are updated weekly, sometimes with additional deployments inbetween the scheduled ones. Constant sitenotice would be a bad idea.
I suggest you subscribe to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News , which is an also weekly newsletter summarising new features and important fixed bugs every week, as well as providing links to the detailed change logs.
Not a bad idea, although every time someone says "xx needs to be communicated better", someone else responds with "there's a mailing list for that!" So far, based on recommendations from *this* mailing list, I've subscribed to half a dozen other lists that, generally speaking, didn't give me any more information than I would have received here. (Wikitech Ambassadors? Who's sending anything there? Is it useful anymore?)
Some streamlining of communication processes, and giving consideration to a quick and straightforward process to reach information that can be done directly from any WMF wiki, would be a really significant outreach to the primary users.
Risker/Anne