Hello everyone, Late to the thread, apologies. There has been quite a bit of interest in what I call the "surfacing" of the content from the English Wikipedia homepage as of recent, and I wholeheartedly agree this is a fine idea. Personally, I've been experimenting with our accounts for the reception of "extremely" interesting Wikipedia articles, brought to light by the wonderful people at the Wikipedia subreddit and the Cool Freaks Wikipedia group, and some other sources (which pass the test of being non-offensive, culturally insensitive, or anything which would render a nasty media mention, etc.). That said, I believe we have some "competition" on Twitter with an account called "Wikipedia's DYK" <https://twitter.com/DidYouKnowWP?lang=en> - this is ran by a community member?
The #DidYouKnow is mostly them, but #DYK is far more popular. But that's Twitter. The editorial curation will need to be figured out I think. Ed, Joe, Andrew myself are working on that, but we invite everyone to offer their opinion, suggestions, comments, insights! On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:33 AM, James Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > Heh, fair point there was a lot of context missing there ;) > > For the record I'm all in favor, and I was doing a cheap joke for the > entertainment of those who knew the history :) > > The worst problems are usually something that we will have on our radar, > these articles are not hard to quickly review, and the community IS > actually very good at reviewing these. When there are DYKs we're not > interested in sharing there is no issue skipping them, there are 24 a day > :) it's not like we're going to run out. > > James Alexander > Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation > (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Okay, fair point. In fairness I think something like that's unlikely to >> happen in the future :P >> >> (For context for those unaware, he's talking about this: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltarpedia ... think this may have >> been pre-Katherine :) ) >> >> On 6 August 2015 at 18:26, James Alexander <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Joe Sutherland < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> It's gotten a lot better in fairness. Checking the article isn't awful >>>> before we publish it on social is also pretty trivial, thankfully. >>>> >>>> Joe >>>> >>> >>> Yes.... Yes it has.... >>> >>> BUT DYK that Gibraltar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar> was >>> ceded to Britain "in perpetuity" under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713? >>> >>> /Ducks/ >>> >>> James Alexander >>> Community Advocacy >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Joe Sutherland* >> Communications Intern [remote] >> m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: >> JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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