Hi Joe, thank you for following up with this! I think what Pine has proposed is fine; I had to shorten the quote because of the character limit, but I think it is still equally compelling.
Wikipedia Fb: As s student, Louis Pasteur got a mediocre grade in chemistry and failed an entrance exam. Later in life, he invented a vaccine for rabies. @wikipedia: "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity," -- Louis Pasteur http://buff.ly/1P24jF1 On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to follow up on this - Michael, do you want to get something out > tomorrow? > > Joe > > On 11 September 2015 at 23:47, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been thinking about that. I'm less talented with 140 characters than >> some of the other participants on this list, but perhaps something like >> these would work: >> >> As a student, Louis Pasteur got a mediocre grade in chemistry and failed >> an entrance exam. Later in life, he invented a vaccine for rabies. >> >> "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is >> the torch which illuminates the world." -- Louis Pasteur >> >> Did you know that this microbiologist created the first vaccines for >> anthrax and rabies? >> >> >> Pine >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Joe Sutherland < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Sure! Do you have any potential text for social media? >>> >>> Joe >>> >>> On 11 September 2015 at 03:10, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> To balance out the alleged favoritism shown by Ed's featured article >>>> being posted to the socials, may I propose posting to the socials one of my >>>> successful FP nominations when it becomes POTD? >>>> >>>> Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2015-09-28 >>>> >>>> Pine >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> > > > -- > *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 > > -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org [email protected]
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