Of course there's the infamous @wikipedia_mk and @itwikiquote :) 2011/8/18 Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk>
> On 18 August 2011 17:39, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > > More useful for smaller wikis. Tweeting new pages or recent changes > > for enwiki would probably destroy Twitter very quickly. > > > > When I was more involved with Citizendium, I wrote a script to pipe > > new pages into Twitter. It's still running: > > http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts > > Wikimedia article feeds on twitter: > > @en_wikinews > @dewikinews > @wikinews (Chinese) > > @el_wikipedia is an article counter > @wikipedia_de is the daily FA > @zhwiki_newpages is all new pages > @ZHWP is some form of selected article feed > > Anyone know of other active ones? > > The German approach here seems a pretty good one, at least to test the > water - daily featured article, plus possibly other front-page > content. Perhaps a feed of all new (rather than featured-that-day) > "quality" content would be interesting, to give people something they > might not see from the main page? A feed of enwiki's newly graded FA + > GA + FP would be about ten a day, which seems quite a reasonable > figure; I'm not sure what the figures are like for others, though, and > this would be a bit more unpredictable than the daily feeds. > > As far as new articles, well. Feeding an unfiltered list would get a > lot of junk (and, perhaps more annoyingly, a lot of quickly dead > links). If we look at *surviving* pages, and assume we somehow would > be able to not send out the ones that are going to get deleted, then > we're looking at an article every forty seconds on enwiki, five > minutes on itwiki, ten minutes on jawiki, twenty minutes on huwiki... > > (This might be an interesting tool for trying to stoke interest in > less active projects - feeds slow enough to not be annoying, but > varied enough they might catch people's attention. Hmm. I wonder what > overlap there is between [language groups common on twitter] and > [small WP projects needing users].) > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
