Begin community discussion on mobile and desktop print styles
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	Feb 7 2017, 6:53 PM

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Background
we will be changing the print styles for desktop (T154965: [EPIC] Print styles - desktop) and mobile (T154964: [EPIC] Improve mobile print styles) printing and would like to ensure that are communities are aware of the change

Success criteria
A message to communities is sent out before desktop print styles are deployed

First message asking for feedback: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088565.html
Second reminder that the styles are being deployed the week of 9 October https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-October/088969.html

Timeline
We were expecting to deploy the desktop print style in June 2017, we informed communities of the change and gathered feedback 1-2 weeks. Another reminder to be sent before deployment.

Summary of pdf styling changes and rationale is here
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles

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Mentioned In: T175000: Technical Collaboration quarterly check in for October - December 2017
Mentioned Here: T154964: [EPIC] Improve mobile print styles
T154965: [EPIC] Print styles - desktop

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ovasileva created this task.Feb 7 2017, 6:53 PM

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CKoerner_WMF subscribed.Feb 16 2017, 9:05 PM

• Moushira updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 17 2017, 9:05 AM

@ovasileva could you provide a bit more information in order to help us plan this task, please?

what exactly needs to be discussed, and what is the goal of this discussion?

Are there any communities in particular that should be contacted first?

Is there a Phabricator tag for this project?

When would you like this work to start?

@ovasileva, this has been opened for a while now and the situation still isn't clear.
I'll include the template we're using for such requests:

Please make sure all of the following is covered in the description:

What is the problem?
How does success of this task look like? How do we know when we are done?
Is there any goal, program, project, team related with this request? Please provide links and use the corresponding Phabricator tags when available.
What is your expected timeline from start to end? Is there a hard deadline?

Thanks.

@Elitre - sorry for the delay - adding to the task description

ovasileva updated the task description. (Show Details)May 31 2017, 3:16 PM

Assuming I'm helping in this, I've assigned it to myself.

CKoerner_WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Jun 1 2017, 7:02 PM

ovasileva added a project: Web-Team-Backlog-Archived.Jun 7 2017, 3:19 PM

ovasileva moved this task from Incoming to 2014-15 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived board.

TheDJ subscribed.Jun 15 2017, 12:01 PM

CKoerner_WMF moved this task from Backlog to Jul-Sep 2017 on the Community-Relations-Support board.Jun 29 2017, 2:46 PM

CKoerner_WMF edited projects, added Community-Relations-Support (Jul-Sep 2017); removed Community-Relations-Support.

Jdlrobson moved this task from 2014-15 Q4 to Tracking on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived board.Jun 29 2017, 8:20 PM

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Jdlrobson moved this task from Untriaged to Move to Backlog on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Tracking) board.Jun 29 2017, 8:23 PM

Chris, I can't remember anymore where we are on this :D

Yes, I need to update this task!

I sent a short message to wikitech-l, wikitech-ambassadors-l, and added it to Tech News for this past week.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088565.html

Feedback is being collected at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles

Qgil moved this task from Backlog to August on the Community-Relations-Support (Jul-Sep 2017) board.Aug 13 2017, 5:36 PM

CKoerner_WMF added a project: Readers-Community-Engagement.Aug 22 2017, 3:28 PM

• Elitre awarded a token.Aug 24 2017, 10:01 AM

CKoerner_WMF moved this task from ToDo to Web on the Readers-Community-Engagement board.Oct 2 2017, 4:49 PM

CKoerner_WMF moved this task from Jul-Sep 2017 to Oct-Dec 2017 on the Community-Relations-Support board.Oct 2 2017, 4:54 PM

CKoerner_WMF edited projects, added Community-Relations-Support (Oct-Dec 2017); removed Community-Relations-Support (Jul-Sep 2017).

What is left to do in this task? Success criteria in the description seems to be completed. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles hasn't been active in two months.

We will be doing a small secondary update this week before the final deployment on Monday (Oct 9)

CKoerner_WMF mentioned this in T175000: Technical Collaboration quarterly check in for October - December 2017.Oct 4 2017, 2:16 PM

CKoerner_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 4 2017, 2:30 PM

Draft update to communities: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Print_styles_reminder

Olga, if this looks agreeable to you, please let me know and I can share.

CKoerner_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 4 2017, 3:14 PM

Whoops, I didn't make the ping work. o/ @ovasileva

made a tiny edit, but looks good to me! @CKoerner_WMF

Qgil moved this task from Backlog to October on the Community-Relations-Support (Oct-Dec 2017) board.Oct 5 2017, 10:38 AM

CKoerner_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 5 2017, 7:33 PM

Closing this as print styles are now available on all wikis and all announcements have been completed. All done!

Qgil awarded a token.Nov 10 2017, 9:01 PM

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