Extension:Newsletter

The Newsletter extension provides a catalog of newsletters within a given wiki, and an easy way to subscribe/unsubscribe to each one, in a user's "preferences" screen. In the future, it might expand the delivery notifications beyond the user talk page, to additionally offer Echo and/or email notification as options.

This extension is under development, and we have a test instance at http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/

The team is formed mostly by volunteers, and we welcome new contributors. Our goal is to deploy this extension in Wikimedia. Check the ongoing work in our Phabricator workboard.

(This lead section is current as of about October 2015.)

Special:Newsletters

 * List of newsletters with their basic information, generated automatically.
 * Registered users can subscribe to newsletters in order to receive notifications about new issues announced, according to their Echo preferences.
 * Registered users can check the newsletters they have subscribed to, and they can unsubscribe.

Special:CreateNewsletter

 * Registered users can add existing newsletters to the system (which is referred to as "CreateNewsletter"). They must provide the title of the newsletter; a link to an existing wiki page that serves as main page; and a description.

Special:ManageNewsletter

 * Publishers can announce issues for newsletters that have been added into the system via Special:CreateNewsletter. Echo (?) notifications are sent to subscribers when an issue is announced.
 * Administrators and other users granted the rights can add and remove publishers. Administrators must provide the name of the newsletter and username of the publisher. (This is (?) separate from Special:UserRights; the right exists only in relation to a specific newsletter.)

Requirements

 * Install Echo - Newsletter extension makes use of Echo notifications to notify subscribed users of new issues when announced by the newsletters, and to notify new publishers and subscribers added.

User Rights
By default, only users in 'sysop' group have this permissions. You can set up the user rights in.

For example, the following configuration would allow any user to do anything they want with the Newsletter extension, such as creating a new newsletter, deleting an existing newsletter, or managing an existing newsletter by adding or removing publishers.