Thanks for your thoughts Michael! Looks like that Twitter account is a bot, based on its use of ellipses. I think we'd need to curate our output more strictly for obvious reasons, not least for length.
best, Joe On 6 August 2015 at 19:02, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > _______________________________________________ > 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)>
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