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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 [[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts|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 [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media | 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 [[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media |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 [[http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/|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** * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog * The discussion that motivated this task: [[ https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-January/080019.html | Wikitech-l - Stance on Social Media ]]

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 [[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts|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 [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media | 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 [[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media |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 [[http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/|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** * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog * The discussion that motivated this task: [[ https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-January/080019.html | Wikitech-l - Stance on Social Media ]] * {T165773}

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 [[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts|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 [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media | 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 [[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media |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 [[http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/|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** * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog * The discussion that motivated this task: [[ https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-January/080019.html | Wikitech-l - Stance on Social Media ]] * {T165773}