Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Technical/Page from when Pete Forsyth tried to do this same thing in 2016

Placeholder page; as of January 2016, EIC Pete Forsyth is trying to keep a record of the various technical tools that do, or should, form the foundation of the Signpost's logistics -- i.e., subscription, production, delivery, archiving, search, etc.

Currently used

 * bots
 * The publication bot (which has existed in at least two iterations) is broken.
 * import scripts
 * templates
 * the code (does it live in templates?) that generates things like the MassMessage text and the text for Wikimedia-Announce.
 * Slack -- our main internal communication tool
 * Google Docs -- used for composing many stories
 * Hypothes.is -- used for giving feedback on stories submitted on-wiki

Need work

 * Production bot
 * Blog import script

Considering

 * Trello -- for keeping a list of what's going into the next edition, and maybe other uses
 * Newsletter extension -- for "delivering" each edition to subscribers, via Echo notification and/or email

Areas of work
This includes both current and aspirational:
 * Subscription
 * enwp
 * other wikis
 * off-wiki (e.g. email)
 * Production
 * Writing
 * Editing
 * Copy-editing
 * Formatting
 * Graphics
 * Delivery & notification
 * Echo web notification
 * Echo email delivery
 * Delivery of TOC to subscribers' enwp user talk pages
 * Delivery of TOC to subscribers' non-enwp user talk pages
 * Watchlist notification
 * Email list notification
 * Twitter
 * Facebook
 * RSS
 * Google News & similar
 * Archives, search & discovery
 * Brand building/management
 * Internal
 * External
 * Human resources
 * Recruitment
 * Job descriptions & review
 * Internship logistics
 * Transitions
 * Resume-building & documentation