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Decide which Wikimedia wiki gets Newsletter extension first, and seek support
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment says "Communicate your ideas/plans to affected wikis to garner both support and suggestions/feedback". In our conversations we have mentioned Meta as a good candidate for a first wiki. An alternative could be mediawiki.org, where technical novelties land first frequently. Opinions?

Note that enabling Newsletter in multiple wikis depends on our plan for T110645: Interwiki support for Newsletter extension

Request in mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:T2dqjshzbmpgnrbp

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Qgil created this task.Oct 22 2015, 11:12 AM
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Qgil added projects: Community-Relations-Support, MediaWiki-extensions-Newsletter, DevRel-November-2015.
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Qgil moved this task from Backlog to Technical review on the MediaWiki-extensions-Newsletter board.Oct 22 2015, 11:28 AM
Qgil lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Oct 29 2015, 11:44 AM

Discussed in our weekly meeting:

<qgil> Meta or mediawiki.org?
<tonythomas> great. I too will pitch in in breaking down
<qgil> (thanks!)
<tinajohnson> the wiki which has the most number of newsletters ?
<Glaisher> I think for production cluster we will start with testwikis
<Glaisher> and then, move onto mediawiki.org
<tonythomas> qgil: :) but, usually we went from like a test to core
<Glaisher> after that other wikis
<tonythomas> true
<tinajohnson> good idea
<Glaisher> That's how extensions are usually deployed
<qgil> "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment says "Communicate your ideas/plans to affected wikis to garner both support and suggestions/feedback"."
<qgil> there is no community to ask in test
<tonythomas> there was one wiki page
<Glaisher> qgil: yeah, people can see how the extension does once we get it deployed to the testwikis
<qgil> mmmok
<Glaisher> After that, they will have an idea about it so we can get feedback
<Glaisher> and interest to get it deployed elsewhere
<qgil> Labs instance is not enough?
<tonythomas> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/One_week
<Glaisher> Many people don't know that beta exists
<tonythomas> we went like that for BounceHandler ( its a different story )
<Glaisher> (and I don't think they will sign up at the labs instance just for it)
<tonythomas> from beta, we moved to group0 in prodcution
<qgil> ok then, lowering priority

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Selsharbaty-WMF subscribed.Dec 29 2015, 4:17 AM

Outreach wiki also has two important newsletter, the education newsletter and GLAM newsletter. I think it should be one of the first wikis to get the extension. :)

Qgil moved this task from Backlog to Team radar on the Community-Relations-Support board.Jan 13 2016, 1:20 AM
Qgil added a comment.EditedFeb 18 2016, 12:16 PM

I think we should start with mediawiki.org. It's a natural wiki for technical novelties, and we have a user case related with the WMF product development process that we could start testing.

Also very important, mediawiki.org is getting interwiki notifications, a feature that will affect how this extension is used cross-wiki.

Trizek-WMF subscribed.Feb 18 2016, 1:47 PM

I +1 on mediawiki.org for the initial test. Unfortunately, Tech News is on Meta :/
But it should be extended to active wikis after a short term, to see if people who are not aware of all newsletters we publish get more involved.

Qgil added a comment.Feb 25 2016, 10:44 PM

@Tinaj1234 @01tonythomas @Glaisher any objection to mediawiki.org as first wiki? Let's decide by Thursday, March 3 latest.

Sadads added subscribers: • TFlanagan-WMF, Romaine, Sadads.Mar 24 2016, 2:57 PM

I want to +1 @Selsharbaty-WMF 's comment above about outreach -- probably want it to be one of the next locaitons because of the two important newsletters. Also letting @Romaine @TFlanagan-WMF know about this for the GLAM-Wiki end.

Qgil added a comment.Mar 30 2016, 9:59 AM

T110645: Interwiki support for Newsletter extension needs a bit more though before we enable this extension in several wikis. Sure, newsletters in these wikis would be able to move to the new model, but users would not have a single list with all the newsletters available yet.

Giving users an easy way to discover newsletters is an important aspect of this project.

Qgil claimed this task.Apr 19 2016, 6:59 AM
Qgil mentioned this in T110170: Goal: Deploy Newsletter extension in Wikimedia.
Qgil updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 19 2016, 7:25 AM

Request in mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:T2dqjshzbmpgnrbp

Qgil moved this task from Team radar to Apr-Jun-2016 on the Community-Relations-Support board.Apr 19 2016, 7:26 AM
Qgil edited projects, added Community-Relations-Support (Apr-Jun-2016); removed Community-Relations-Support.
Qgil moved this task from Backlog to April on the Community-Relations-Support (Apr-Jun-2016) board.Apr 19 2016, 7:55 AM
Qgil raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.May 5 2016, 8:34 AM

No blockers in mediawiki.org. I'm keeping this task as is until we have completed the blockers of T115095: Security review of Newsletter extension

Qgil moved this task from April to May on the Community-Relations-Support (Apr-Jun-2016) board.May 5 2016, 8:34 AM
Qgil closed this task as Resolved.Jun 1 2016, 2:28 PM

I think this task has served its purpose. mediawiki.org it is.

Request in mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:T2dqjshzbmpgnrbp

QuimGil mentioned this in T154229: Agree first user group that will be able to create newsletters in Wikimedia.Dec 28 2016, 12:09 PM
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