Transparency is a good thing and I think it's great that we're doing this. The main problem in my opinion with comms is people complain about missing announcements so we need to make sure such a newsletter gets posted in all the channels .e.g. all the necessary village pumps... mobile-l... mediawiki.org etc. etc..
On 15 Apr 2015 3:21 am, "Moushira Elamrawy" <melamr...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Sounds very reasonable. A lot of changes happen in mobile, some are tangent > to desktop experiences, and pro-actively sharing those updates while in > planning or early stage, is a good practice. In addition, keeping the > community updated and aware of what is happening in mobile, helps present the > bigger picture of why stuff are being built/modified, and helps get more > interest and suggestions or objections to what is being done. Similarly for > new comers or readers community on mobile, understanding/learning more about > what is being done and what is coming next, could be a step forward towards > further engagement. Makes sense? If so, then the next question should be, > where would this live? VP, email newsletter, MW, etc..:) > > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Amir E. Aharoni > <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: >> >> Who is the target audience? >> >> If I understand correctly, the target audience for the weekly Tech news and >> the monthly VE news is experienced active editing Wikipedians (I don't know >> if it was ever designated, but I am making an educated guess of the actual >> practice). >> >> But what is it for the mobile newsletter? >> Active editing Wikipedians don't do it much on mobile AFAIK, although it may >> be defined as the newsletter's goal to increase this number. >> >> Wikipedia readers? There are many millions of those on mobile, but do they >> read the newsletters? Certainly not on Village Pumps. Maybe it could be >> delivered as a notification in the mobile web or in the apps? >> >> What else? >> >> New editors? >> Projects' JS and CSS maintainers? >> Gadget lovers? >> Twitter aficionados? >> Somebody else? >> >> This target audience should be defined before starting to publishing it. >> >> (N.B.: I didn't mention translation!!! :) ) >> >> >> -- >> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >> “We're living in pieces, >> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >> >> 2015-04-15 12:41 GMT+03:00 Moushira Elamrawy <melamr...@wikimedia.org>: >>> >>> Hello Mobile fans :) >>> >>> Florian and and myself earlier created a draft for a Mobile Newsletter: >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Newsletter -- it is currently a bit >>> outdated since it has been around for a while. Given the comments on phab >>> ticket. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93529, it is likely that this >>> needs to be streamlined with other newsletters, however, meanwhile the >>> coordination, please check and let me know: >>> 1. What would be the best approach to create it --agree on sections (new >>> features, testing, etc) where volunteers, PMs and CL add details to? >>> 2. This format is too detailed? Too brief? What else do we need to see on >>> a newsletter for mobile? >>> >>> Obviously, it has to be made mobile friendly, as well. :) >>> >>> Comments, suggestions, thoughts? >>> >>> Many Thanks! >>> Moushira >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
