Checklist

• Setup a draft for the quarter's edition of the newsletter. Ensure content is easier for everyone to understand, even if they're not tech-savvy. See October 2023 newsletter.
• Ask Language team members in Slack channel to add items to the draft.
• Gather any relevant metrics from data analysts or stories from community members and liaisons to add as items.
• Modify month and year on this header graphic and add it to the newsletter wiki page.
• Pick a featured image following the brand guidelines
• Make final copy-edits, remove {{draft}} from the page and mark the page for translations.
• Make a review request to WMF Comms (by December 15th)
• Recruit volunteers to help with translating content into multiple languages. For example, you can send an email to translators-l list.
• Edit Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter on MediaWiki.org to link to latest edition.
• Promote the newsletter
  • Use the newsletter page to announce the new page to subscribers - this requires being a publisher, see Access list on office.wiki.
  • Send an email to Wikitech-l, Wikimedia-l, Wikidata-l, Clouds-l, Wikitech-Ambassadors, Wikimedia Announcements mailing lists announcing the newsletter to the wider technical community.
  • Provide small snippets from the newsletter to WMF's social media team to help amplify highlights.
  • Publish the newsletter on the Diff blog. See Growth team's newsletter for reference.
  • WMF Comms TLDR newsletter
  • Telegram / IRC channels https://t.me/WikimediaAnnouncements, https://t.me/wmhack
  • MassMessage to selected village pumps. Distribution list with 17 biggest Wikipedias, Commons and Wikidata.
• Set up Phabricator task for next quarter on the Language-Team and Language-Technical Support workboard (using the quarter project tag) and copy this checklist into its task description.
• Recruit someone to help create newsletter for the next edition to be published three months later.