[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering August 2012 report

[Tilman Bayer]

Rupert raises an interesting point. How many people prefer such
mailing list announcements of new reports to include a plaintext
version of the report itself?

With the general monthly WMF report, we are always including a
plaintext version (example:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2012-September/000468.html
). But it's a bit of an overhead and we have been wondering if it is
worthwhile. (One possible benefit, besides better readability on
mobile devices according to Rupert, is that one can search the report
in one's inbox together with other mailing list postings.)

So hands up, who else reads or uses these plaintext email versions of
such reports, and wants to see them included in the future?

(Separately, there is the possibility of sending full HTML versions by
email. This is something we started doing, somewhat experimentally,
for the Wikimedia Research Newsletter - see
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter - but
I assume this would not be desirable or acceptable for this list.)

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:18 PM, rupert THURNER
<rupert.thurner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Salut guillome, ca serait possible de avoir cette mail avec le contenue
> directe aussi? Ca se lit plus facilement avec un portable.
>
> Rupert.
> Am 04.09.2012 20:42 schrieb "Guillaume Paumier" <gpaumier at wikimedia.org>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in August 2012 is
>> now available.
>>
>> Wiki version:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/August
>> Blog version:
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/04/engineering-august-2012-report/
>>
>> --
>> Guillaume Paumier
>> Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
>> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>>
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Tilman Bayer
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