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Creating Newsletter for mobile
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I have started a draft here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Newsletter. Open questions and missing stuff are:

  1. Should it sync with Technews, or every sprint, or else..
  2. Would it make sense to have a major one and other Newsletter bits for frequent updates?
  3. This needs more visual aid (icons for mobile web/mobile app)
  4. If we agreed on the basic structure, we can keep the format, while add to it collaboratively?
  5. What else is possibly missing? :-)

Thanks!

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• Moushira created this task.Mar 22 2015, 7:06 PM
• Moushira raised the priority of this task from to Medium.
• Moushira updated the task description. (Show Details)
• Moushira added projects: Mobile, Web-Team-Backlog, Mobile-Apps.
• Moushira added subscribers: • Moushira, Aklapper, Florian.
• Moushira set Security to None.Mar 22 2015, 7:09 PM
• Moushira added subscribers: • gpaumier, • Elitre, • Whatamidoing-WMF.
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Qgil subscribed.Mar 23 2015, 10:33 AM

Should it sync with Technews

Ideally, every piece of tech news should sync with Tech News.

• Moushira added a subscriber: • Rdicerb.Mar 23 2015, 11:07 AM
• Moushira added a comment.Mar 23 2015, 2:28 PM

@ Qgil, so you are suggesting this grows as a mobile section of Tech News?

• gpaumier removed a project: Notice.Mar 23 2015, 2:49 PM
• gpaumier moved this task from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Qgil added a comment.Mar 23 2015, 2:56 PM

You could start making sure that Mobile tech news are featured in Tech News, and then analyze whether you need something bigger separate.

MaxSem moved this task from Incoming to 2015-16 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Mar 23 2015, 5:18 PM
• gpaumier added a comment.Mar 23 2015, 5:32 PM

I think this could a great opportunity to think about the larger picture and reorganize community newsletters and communications from the perspective of the CEP team.

We've been discussing for some time a more structured and consistent approach with regard to product- and engineering-related community announcements and discussions, and notably better coordination between Tech News, the VisualEditor newsletter, the Wikidata newsletter, etc.

Starting a Mobile newsletter could be the nudge we needed to think about newsletters in a holistic manner. @Rdicerb, is this something the CEP team would have interest in driving?

Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.Mar 31 2015, 7:57 AM
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• Whatamidoing-WMF added a comment.May 12 2015, 2:30 AM
In T93529#1140235, @Qgil wrote:

Ideally, every piece of tech news should sync with Tech News.

That still leaves a lot of room for non-tech news. For example, almost every issue of the VisualEditor newsletter includes a screenshot and a brief item that explains how to do something, which is neither "tech" nor necessarily "news".

I supporting including tech information in Tech/News. I'm not sure that everything on the list is really "tech news". Also, I beleive that there are a lot of people who don't read Tech/News, because they believe it's mostly about things they aren't interested in. A specialized newsletter solves that problem.

• Whatamidoing-WMF added a comment.May 12 2015, 2:31 AM

@Moushira, are you expecting this to be read on smartphones? If so, then frequent, short notices might be better than a large one.

Ricordisamoa subscribed.Jul 21 2015, 11:09 PM
• Moushira added a comment.Sep 24 2015, 5:51 PM

We currently have this
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Reading_team_updates_August,_2015

• Moushira closed this task as Resolved.Sep 24 2015, 5:51 PM
Liuxinyu970226 unsubscribed.Sep 25 2015, 10:52 AM
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