https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines -- Should be updated in tandem with the tech blog guidelines. I noticed some areas of double coverage here and want to make sure folks are not confused about which venue is appropropriate for them to publish in.

Staging editorial guidelines here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SRodlund_(WMF)/Techical_Blog_Editorial_Guidelines_(Staging)

From a very quick read: Maybe add links to those "Twitter" and "Facebook" things? How can I receive an email about my post having been published if you might not know my email address? How to find out what a "freely licensed image" is? Should "get in touch with us" be a link? "Open Source" should be "Free and open source". Does "on MediaWiki" mean "on MediaWiki.org" or "in the MediaWiki software"?

@srodlund: From a quick reading:

• "Please get in touch with us at least two weeks before any deadlines." makes me wonder how and where to get in touch. Should that link to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_blog_editorial_guidelines#Share_an_idea_for_a_blog_post_or_consider_a_post_you_have_already_written ?
• It's unclear to me where to put my blogpost draft. I'm currently told to create a Phab task but should I somehow paste my draft in there? Or where could it be? Which format is my draft supposed to be in? MediaWiki markup? HTML? Something else?
• Some stuff under "Tips for better blog posts" is duplicated with "Writing your blog post", e.g. using alt parameters
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_blog_editorial_guidelines#About_the_Tech_Blog mentions CC BY-SA 4.0, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_blog_editorial_guidelines#Tips_for_better_blog_posts mentions CC BY-SA 3.0

Hi @Aklapper -- if you read the full editorial guidelines, you will see people need to file a Phabricator task. It is prefilled with questions for people to answer to get the process started.

The reason it is unclear where the draft will go is that it will depend on the individual post and that is something the blog admins will work out with the individual when they discuss the post. Part of making the blog accessible is being able to work with writers individually and understand the tools they are using rather than making a sweeping decision that drafts must all be in one format.

You are also welcome to make changes to the draft if you see errors that you think should be corrected.

In T243405#5973808, @srodlund wrote:

Hi @Aklapper -- if you read the full editorial guidelines, you will see people need to file a Phabricator task. It is prefilled with questions for people to answer to get the process started.

Yes, I saw that... I'm told so under "Publishing", a while after I was already told to contact you under "Prewriting".

The reason it is unclear where the draft will go is that it will depend on the individual post and that is something the blog admins will work out with the individual when they discuss the post. Part of making the blog accessible is being able to work with writers individually and understand the tools they are using rather than making a sweeping decision that drafts must all be in one format.

I wasn't after one single format, I'd prefer to know which formats would be acceptable before I'm about to start prewriting. As an author, I'd like to avoid spending time later needed to convert my draft from LaTeX to another file format (in case that LaTeX is not acceptable, which I currently cannot tell from the docs). If literally any format is acceptable it would be great to explicitly say so. :)

Fair enough. I can change that :-)