notes on welcome-a-bit job
This project is designed to encourage involvement of people with newly submitted articles at Wikinews by sending them instant notifications of new submissions in their topics of interest.
Purpose: give encouragement to new submitters Method: notify them of other new submissions in categories they have expressed value for
To sign up, add your name to the page https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/welcome_a_bit . [visited this link:] To encourage timely completion of new submissions, you can help by 'welcoming' each new article 'a bit'. A welcome is - instant (or nearly instant) - encouraging - inviting to work together (and if they are asking for help, then keep this promise :) ) To offer your help with the code, click 'source code' below.
It's a user page with an interactive interface. It provides a "sign up button" that opts the visitor in for these notifications.
Signing up allows you to receive instant notifications of new drafts submissions by email or on your personal talk page on wiki.
The notifications are of new drafts submissions. The notifications may be received either by e-mail or on your on-wiki page.
This tool is being maintained by Gryllida who does the coding and documentation. If the are any issues or suggestions, just ask at the talk page: Click here to leave a message.
There's a special link to communicate with Gryllida who is developing this. [the project is called "welcome-a-bit"]
Source code: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/weabit/
The development portal is https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/weabit/ . Back to the job description. It said here "expected to be completed in fully in February 2019". It may be stagnant. I'll ignore that for now. I just want a project.
Information for helpers: [https] User:Gryllida/welcome a bit/for helpers Mastodon (the free federated Twitter alternative): [https] @gry@masthead.social
Back to the job description.
Currently we support delivery of notifications by e-mail. We may deliver the notifications to wiki pages, Android push notifications, or IRC in the future; if you are interested in any of these methods please send me a message.
Additional work is available. I'll focus on what's just in front of me.
This project is in the beta stage. You are encouraged to test it and share your feedback. To report any bugs or suggestions, please leave a message using any of the below venues: - open an issue using the 'issues' link at the top - query live chat at #wikinews at freenode - leave a message on-wiki at https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User_talk:Gryllida/welcome_a_bit
They have an irc channel on freenode (which may have moved to libera.chat). They use the wikinews channel, so I can find the wikinews irc channel to discuss this project / job. Next in the description is a draft perl script.