To do:
- Decide on specific launch date (June 15), and target timing
- Decide on communication channels
- Determine process, requirements, and lead time for each channel
- Assign each channel to someone to write and submit content
Channels:
Blog
- [Tricia] Tech blog post (scheduled for 1400 UTC+0 on 15 June 2022)
- [Tricia] Diff blog post (submitted for review, on Editorial Calendar for 15 June 2022) (you need a Diff account for this link to work)
Social Media
- [Karen] Upload Google Forms for WMF Social Media.
- [Karen] Draft short announcements for Twitter.
- [Karen] Publish in MediaWiki (Twitter) and Wikimediatech (Twitter) on launch day (June 15th). - https://twitter.com/wikimediatech/status/1537090897296273410
Mailing lists
- [Karen] Draft emails.
- [Birgit] Schedule emails for launch day (June 15th) to wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wmf-optional@, wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org, cloud@lists.wikimedia.org, wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org - see e.g. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/OJNMNBMCMDZKSPBRUJLZZUFF6BNPYWAH/
Other
- [Karen] Draft short announcements for Telegram and Slack
- [Karen] Publish announcement on launch day (June 15th) in internal Slack channels
- [Andre] Publish announcement on launch day (June 15th) in the Telegram WMHack channel/group
- [Andre] Publish announcement on launch day (June 15th) in #wikimedia-tech Libera IRC channel
- [Andre] Add to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:MediaWiki_News: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AMediaWiki_News&type=revision&diff=5278342&oldid=5277668
More details on process and deadlines about this can be seen in non-public https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TO3SsusVNlUwIB-_hfGEB_SCal3Jtu7xhNDARCx5Zas/edit?usp=sharing