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] > @[email protected] 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.
