Currently we have a missed opportunity around MediaWiki developer and Wikimedia tech news. This epic task tries to fix this problem. Let's keep the generic discussion here and let's create subtasks for specific goals.
Problems
- Publishing news in mediawiki.org is a pain. We don't even have a proper place (or extension?) for that. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/News
- Publishing news in https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/ (Wordpress) could be simpler from a tooling point of view, but we don't have a light and open process though proposing drafts is possible.
- We have a fragmentation of channels: mediawiki.org, Wikimedia tech blog, multiple social media accounts in multiple services. Even after writing a news piece, distributing it through all these channels is not trivial.
- The editorial work through all these different channels is quite centralized, with the responsibility of distribution falling in the hands of a few very busy people. Casual contributors are basically left out.
- We are not even using or monitoring the MediaWiki social media accounts socially (resharing, replying, following...)
- The list https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media duplicates the official lists on Meta-Wiki, which the social media folks are most likely to check.
Goals
- Publishing should be easy for anybody with something interesting to say. This is currently possible in the Wikimedia Planet.
- Wikimedia tech blog, mediawiki.org, and social media should be automatically in sync.
- RSS extension can easily publish a single blog/feed on a wiki page, already used on http://wikimediafoundation.org/
- It's equally trivial to push a feed to Twitter, Facebook and probably others.
- The MediaWiki social media accounts should be properly maintained by people knowing and enjoying the social media game (resharing, replying, following...)
See also