On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks all. > > I am guessing that most our social followers support Wikimedia content and > the Wikimedia platform. So: > > 1. Would a petition to FB from thousands of followers make a difference? > Maybe, but that's a campaign we'd want to design with allied organizations for maximum impact, which requires coordination and resourcing not currently in the Annual Plan. So, per James, that's a 12-18mo goal. > 2. I am thinking that well designed, short social posts that excite our > followers into clicking links to content on our platform might be > sufficient for our goals. Thoughts? This ties in with Luis' comment about > closed web versus open web; FB gains from closed web, and we gain from open > web, so strategically I think that we would want to encourage our followers > to venture out to the open web and onto our platform. > We should always strive for well designed, short social posts that excite our followers! Especially in a way that supports the open web. But sub-optimally rendered images don't quite get us there (and right now, there's no current roadmap in the product teams for better social platform rendering/performance for Commons images). Lessons learned from highly visual accounts (NASA, US Dept. of Interior) suggest any intermediation of the image is an immediate loss factor. I don't want to speak for Jeff, whose remit this all is, but between total closed-web capitulation and idealism, I settle into the slightly less exciting groove of pragmatism on what we can do with what we have. > Pine > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- Katherine Maher Chief Communications Officer Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 +1 (415) 712 4873 [email protected]
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