Make volunteer stakeholders aware of RfC for implementing new syntax for multi-line comments
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	Jul 25 2020, 12:54 AM

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This task is about making sure the relevant volunteers (people and groups) are aware of the RfC for implementing new syntax for multi-line comments.

Stakeholders to inform

TBD

Announcement locations

Announcement location	Link to posted announcement
TBD	TBD

Open questions

Who should be made aware of this RfC?
Where/how should these people be made aware?

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All "Open questions" are answered
Links to each announcement are added to the "Announcement locations" table

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ppelberg created this task.Jul 25 2020, 12:54 AM

ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Community Engagement on the Editing-team (Tracking) board.

ppelberg mentioned this in T246960: Publish Technical RfC: new syntax for multi-line list items/talk page comments.Aug 12 2020, 5:56 PM

Initial recommendations for invitations to participate in the RFC:

Everyone

Wikitech-l – canonical announcement location
Tech/News – most important venue on-wiki

Devs

Internal mailing lists for Product and Technology – reminder/for anyone who isn't on wikitech-l
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/News
Consider an IRC-based office hour
Ask @srishakatux for advice on reaching volunteer devs (because not everyone reads Tech/News)

Tech editors

Village pump (technical) pages at the larger wikis, including English Wikisource (because they do a lot of formatting work)
Bot ops' noticeboards at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard and https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Форум_ботоводов
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_newsletter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia (because this will ultimately make their lives easier)
@Reedy because of AWB and @Cacycle because of WikEd (which may want a new button)

Third-party MW users

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk
The old mailing list looks inactive; get advice from @Yaron_Koren on a good way to reach people

Aklapper renamed this task from Make volunteer stakeholders aware of RfC to Make volunteer stakeholders aware of RfC for implementing new syntax for multi-line comments.Aug 26 2020, 8:00 AM

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Jony subscribed.Aug 26 2020, 9:12 AM

Hi - I don't know what you mean by the "old mailing list", but generally I think the mediawiki-l mailing list is a good way to reach third-party users as well. There's also the mediawiki-enterprise@lists.wikimedia.org mailing list, which is semi-active... maybe that's what you mean.

Yes, I was looking at the Enterprise list, which hasn't seen any activity for a while. MediaWiki-l sounds like a good alternative. Thank you for the suggestion.

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ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to New Features on the DiscussionTools board.Sep 8 2022, 5:17 PM

ppelberg removed a project: Editing-team (Tracking).

@ppelberg Can you maybe provide an update on this project's status? Thanks

In T258850#8501344, @Elitre wrote:

@ppelberg Can you maybe provide an update on this project's status? Thanks

@Elitre, for sure! In short: the Editing Team is not currently working on what this ticket is describing nor do we have plans in the near-term to start.

Please let me know if the above brings any new thoughts/questions to mind.

• Elitre awarded a token.Jan 9 2023, 1:32 PM

We can reopen if/when necessary.

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