This looks amazing, great work all! On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 5:46 PM Seve Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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."* > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- -- Will Doran (he/him) Engineering Manager, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation --
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