On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote: > This sums it up pretty well, for those on the list without the benefit of > context. Sigh. :-) > > Michael, Andrew, and I also discussed setting up a page where Wikipedians of > all languages could come and propose social posts for us that link to > articles they've written. I figured that we could adopt the DYK/TIL format > for that.
As in indicated in the previous email, we set up such a page back in 2013 and ran it for a while, see e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar/2014/01 Back then we drafted and reviewed in parallel on that Meta page and on this mailing list, which involved a significant amount of overhead. Also, because few people besides Matthew and myself were checking their Meta watchlist often enough, this mailing list proved to be a much more reliable venue for people to post SM ideas for review and get a timely response. That's why the Meta page became inactive, in contrast to this mailing list. Having said that, it might be worth another try, assuming you have a critical mass of SM team members who are living the wiki lifestyle to a sufficient degree in order to ensure that submissions there get noticed and reviewed like they do here ;) > > --Ed > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:33 PM, 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 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 | w: JSutherland >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > > -- > Ed Erhart > Editorial Intern > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
