Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know about new features Facebook is planning on launching later today that involve articles from Wikipedia. Facebook is going to begin integrating Wikipedia’s free knowledge into a new part of the Facebook.com site experience to help users be more connected and informed about the topics and activities that interest them. They're calling this service Facebook Community Pages, portal pages which will be owned and managed by the Facebook community.
Wikipedia articles on Facebook will further increase the reach of free knowledge on the internet. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US. Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors. Facebook will follow the free licenses (CC-BY-SA) and help us find more ways people can share knowledge. Furthermore, we will be looking at other ways that both parties can cooperate in the future. Initially it looks like this service will be focussed on English Wikipedia, but considering Facebook's multi-lingual community it seems likely that other languages will be brought in quickly. Because Facebook members build the Community Pages, they will be able to suggest or add more Wikipedia articles (as well as other relevant content from the web). They will also have a built-in feedback system in case the article provided is not correct or has any display problems. It's going to be a learning situation for both us and them so we'll see how this goes. --Kul -- Kul Takanao Wadhwa Head of Business Development Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. k...@wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 ext. 603 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
