@itwikiquote is an experiment by WMI, it's a bot that writes the Quote of the day via Twitter. It work fairly well.
Aubrey 2011/8/19 Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
