Wikimedia Telegram channels are currently bridged to IRC via Bridgebot / matterbridge, and that works about as poorly as can be expected: text gets over but nothing else, and all Telegram users (and on the other end all IRC users) are shown under the same account.
We should try bridging Matrix with Telegram, either via matterbridge or mautrix-telegram (either t2bot.io or self-hosted).
IRC bridging would then work via the relatively high-quality (e.g. puppeting-capable) Matrix-IRC bridge.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T323845 Investigate bridging Matrix to Telegram | |||
| In Progress | Spike | Tgr | T337136 Test Matrix to Telegram bridge |
Per the mautrix-telegram roadmap it is very nearly feature-complete, and can sync almost everything: rich text, message edits/deletions, reacjis, typing and read receipts, presence, moderation to some extent.
t2bot.io is already being used on #wikimedia-hubs:matrix.org although not sure how many join that channel via the Matrix side.
Maybe it would be worth coming up with some sort of checklist template for testing bridges (based on what was done in T298360: Investigate bridging Matrix to Discord).
Things we learned so far: