Hi all,
> *Summary *Push Notifications are now available to enable on all wikis for
> Android & iOS Wikipedia apps
*Background:*
- Wikimedia Product teams needed a new way to drive user engagement and
retention for features like "Thank You's" and "Edit Reminders"
- Similar to web and email notifications, editors receive quick
notifications outside of using the native apps
- Push notifications are a way to send messages to user devices without
the user engaging with the application
- The Product Infrastructure team[1] designed and built the underlying
infrastructure[2] to provide the push notification capability for other
product teams to leverage
- This first release of v1.0.0 provides the following features:
- App users can now receive notifications sooner, even when the app
is not currently running
- App users can subscribe and unsubscribe to receive Echo
notifications
- Echo can send messages to the user via native Wikipedia apps for
Android and iOS
- The system can limit the rate and volume of messages to prevent
server overload
- Invalid subscriptions are automatically removed from the system
upon notification request failure
- You can find more information on our MediaWiki[2] and WikiTech
pages[3]
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product/Wikimedia_Product_Infrastructure_team
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product_Infrastructure_team/Push_Notifications_Infrastructure
[3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Push_notifications
Best,
--
Seve Kim *(he/him)*
Sr. Technical Product Manager
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."*
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