Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering August 2012 report

2012-10-03 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi,

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
 Tilman Bayer, 05/09/2012 02:52:

 Rupert raises an interesting point. How many people prefer such
 mailing list announcements of new reports to include a plaintext
 version of the report itself?

 Usually I'm very more likely to read something if it's directly in the
 email, however long; a link means oh, more work, must be something long, of
 unknown length (I don't see it), requires one more click, and finally the
 click just sends the reading to the queue together with the other dozens
 tabs open in the browser.
 That said, a good compromise is, I found, to just include the HTML from the
 wiki page. HTML emails are horrible (and I usually fail at sending them) but
 converting wikitext to a readable email plaintext is horrible too.

I'm happy to do that, but do Wikimedia mailing lists support HTML e-mails?

-- 
Guillaume Paumier

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering August 2012 report

2012-10-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)

Guillaume Paumier, 03/10/2012 17:36:

I'm happy to do that, but do Wikimedia mailing lists support HTML e-mails?


We receive them all the time, I suppose so (although sometimes pipermail 
will move the HTML to an attachment).


Nemo

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering August 2012 report

2012-09-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)

Tilman Bayer, 05/09/2012 02:52:

Rupert raises an interesting point. How many people prefer such
mailing list announcements of new reports to include a plaintext
version of the report itself?


Usually I'm very more likely to read something if it's directly in the 
email, however long; a link means oh, more work, must be something 
long, of unknown length (I don't see it), requires one more click, and 
finally the click just sends the reading to the queue together with the 
other dozens tabs open in the browser.
That said, a good compromise is, I found, to just include the HTML from 
the wiki page. HTML emails are horrible (and I usually fail at sending 
them) but converting wikitext to a readable email plaintext is horrible too.


Nemo

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