On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I think this has been proposed before on this list, but I'm bringing it up > again :) > > We could potentially borrow DYK entries from Wikipedia's front page for use > on social. Here's some benefits to this: > > It's cheap, and requires only the avoidance of anything > controversial/potentially promotional, > It's a good way to keep our social feeds active, > Wikipedia articles generally do very well on social media, as Michael can > attest, and > It's a great way to get more eyes on newly improved articles, which is good > for the community. The last point (encourage people to edit) is a great goal. Just as a little caveat though, again drawing from the experience with the 2013/14 experiments (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar/2014/01 etc.): Back then we frequently posted ENWP's "Today's article for improvement" ([[WP:TAFI]]) which is even more optimized - by the community - to invite that kind of engagement than DYKs. Matthew and I invested quite a bit of time in coordinating with the TAFI project community, who liked the idea. However, while I don't have the exact numbers ready, the impact was almost nonexistent - over the course of several months doing this, there were maybe one or two edits that could conceivably have been caused by our TAFI SM postings. Again, I don't want to discourage new experiments, but don't lose sight of impact, and don't rely on assumptions...
> > Some of them might need to be trimmed, but this is a potential one for > Facebook as an example: > • that the woman in Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior with Young Woman Seen from > the Back is the painter's wife, whom he often painted facing away from the > viewer? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_with_Young_Woman_Seen_from_the_Back > > What do we think of this? (Forgive me if we already have an answer for > this!) > > best, > Joe > > -- > 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 > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
