Checklist
- Setup a draft for the quarter's edition of the newsletter. Ensure content is easier for everyone to understand, even if they're not tech-savvy. See October 2023 newsletter.
- Ask Language team members in Slack channel to add items to the draft.
- Gather any relevant metrics from data analysts or stories from community members and liaisons to add as items.
- Modify month and year on this header graphic and add it to the newsletter wiki page.
- Pick a featured image following the brand guidelines
- Make final copy-edits, remove {{draft}} from the page and mark the page for translations.
- Make a review request to WMF Comms (by July 1st week)
- Recruit volunteers to help with translating content into multiple languages. For example, you can send an email to translators-l list.
- Edit Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter on MediaWiki.org to link to latest edition.
- Promote the newsletter
- Use the newsletter page to announce the new page to subscribers - this requires being a publisher, see Access list on office.wiki.
- Send an email to Wikitech-l, Wikimedia-l, Wikidata-l, Clouds-l, Wikitech-Ambassadors, Wikimedia Announcements mailing lists announcing the newsletter to the wider technical community.
- Provide small snippets from the newsletter to WMF's social media team to help amplify highlights.
- Publish the newsletter on the Diff blog. See previous newsletter for reference.
- Telegram / IRC channels https://t.me/WikimediaAnnouncements, https://t.me/wmhack
- Set up Phabricator task for next quarter on the Language-Team and Language-Technical Support workboard (using the quarter project tag) and copy this checklist into its task description.
- Recruit someone to help create newsletter for the next edition to be published three months later.