Education/News/Newsletter Guidelines/archives
Newsletter publication[edit]
- Newsletter creation steps
This section is to document how to create the various versions of the newsletter.
Starting with the February 2017 Newsletter, monthly issues will be published in a single edition. The updated process is currently under review and will be published by 28 February, 2017.
How the current newsletter gets posted to the news page[edit]
The new way:
- Go to Education/News
- Below the __NOTOC__ update the month in the following line of code: {{:Education/Newsletter/Feb_2017}}
How to edit the news feed on the main page[edit]
- Search for: Template:Education Portal/Newsletter/Headlines
- Then edit the Headlines page
- Replace the previous issue’s links with the current issue’s links
- Save the Headlines page
- The Latest news section on the homepage of the Education portal will automatically update. You may, however, have to purge the page/bypass the cache.
How the past issue of the newsletter page is archived[edit]
Open the archives, edit the section for this year, and add a link to the most recent past edition. Make sure that you are not on the main newsletter page, but actually on the page for that specific issue; you're in the right place if there's a month and a year in the URL, like this: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/April_2014.
Publication checklist[edit]
- Make the new newsletter (See: Instructions for creating the various versions of the newsletter)
- Update the news page (See: How the current newsletter gets posted to the news page)
- Update the news feed on portal main page (See: How to edit the news feed on the main page)
- Archive the old issue (See: How the past issue of the newsletter page is archived)
Newsletter distribution[edit]
Sending the newsletter to talkpages[edit]
- There are several methods to get the content of the Headlines, depending on the type of page and what you want to send:
Non-translatable page | Translatable page, but send English-only version | Translatable page, send multilingual version |
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If you have a translatable page, it's full of translate tags, tvars, etc. so you can't just copy/paste the content. You need the clean version of the page, and that's very easy to get.
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- To send the newsletter across wikis, you need the "MassMessage sender" user right (see the list of people who have it). You can request it at m:WM:RFH.
- Once you have the MassMessage sender user right, to send the message, go to: m:Special:MassMessage
- In the page containing list of pages to leave a message on, type:
Global message delivery/Targets/This Month in Education
- In the subject of the message (also used as the edit summary), type:
This Month in Education: [Month Year]
- In the body of the MassMessage, paste the code (i.e. what you have obtained above with one of the three methods).
- Remember to sign the MassMessage with the delivery system's signature and timestamp, using 4 tildes: ~~~~.
- Add the following copy at the bottom:
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> If this message is not on your home wiki's talk page, [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/This Month in Education|update your subscription]]. </div>
- Click "Preview" and then, if it looks good, send it! :)
- Note: Even you're sending a multilingual newsletter, you'll only see the English version when you preview, because Meta is in English.
Sending the newsletter to email subscribers[edit]
- There is a Gmail account for the education newsletter. Log in to the account using this username: thismonthineducation@gmail.com, and contact the education team at the Wikimedia Foundation to get the password at education@wikimedia.org.
- When you are logged in to the account, please check whether there are any subscribe/unsubscribe requests and add/remove them to the group of contacts called "newsletter mailing list".
- Compose a new message in which you should copy the message you sent to talk pages. You may want to include a brief message to the readers before the template.
- Send the message to the group of contacts named "newsletter mailing list"
- You can send the same message to some Wikimedia mailing lists like: education@lists.wikimedia.org, education-collab@lists.wikimedia.org, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, WikimediaAnounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org.