I'm a particularly style conscious person, so yeah lets use that emdash. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Although it won't make much of a difference in this case, you can save on > your Twitter character count and make style-conscious Wikimedians happy by > using an emdash (— or ALT+0151 on Windows machines) in place of the hyphen. > :-) > > Perhaps we could shorten that Facebook/G+ notification? "Just in time for > its 13th birthday, the Odia-language Wikimedia community has deployed a > character encoding converter to unlock the knowledge hidden from search > engines by proprietary encoding systems. This new tool will help them > enrich the Odia Wikipedia and spread the sum of human knowledge in their > language." > > Best, > --Ed > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I like that last tweet and I'll cut down that mega-size caption on FB/G. >> LGTM >> >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Sherman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> We have published "How the Odia Wikimedia community is working to >>> acquire content from newspapers and state portals" to the blog. URL: >>> >>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/03/odia-wikipedia/ >>> >>> Thanks to Subhashish for writing the story and Ed, Fabrice, and Joe for >>> editing. >>> >>> Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. >>> >>> *Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):* >>> >>> • More citations for Odia Wikipedia (@odiawiki) as the community designs >>> character encoding converters to make more content available in Unicode. >>> • The Odia Wikimedia community (@odiawiki) has built new converters, >>> making Odia sources more accessible than ever. >>> • The Odia Wikimedia community (@odiawiki) has built a tool to make Odia >>> sources easier to access and share. >>> • A 13th birthday present from the Odia Wikimedia community (@odiawiki) >>> - a tool to make Odia sources easier to use. >>> >>> *Facebook/Google+* >>> >>> • The Odia-language Wikimedia community has successfully built character >>> encoding converters to convert digital content from newspapers, magazines >>> and portals created in proprietary non-standard encoding systems into >>> Unicode. Because of mainstream media does not make use of the Unicode >>> standard, a massive amount of content does not appear in search engines, >>> and it is difficult to locate relevant content. The converters will help >>> editors to search useful content online and, ultimately, enrich the Odia >>> Wikipedia with new sources, just in time for its thirteenth birthday. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -- >>> Andrew Sherman >>> Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> *E:* [email protected] >>> *WMF:* ASherman (WMF) >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Michael Guss >> Research Analyst >> Wikimediafoundation.org >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org [email protected]
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