Thanks for the list. Can we do French <http://blog.wikimedia.org/fr/2015/10/19/decouvrez-les-photographies-propres-a-vous-couper-le-souffle-qui-remportent-le-concours-wiki-loves-earth-2015/>, Brazilian Portuguese <http://blog.wikimedia.org/pt-br/2015/10/19/veja-as-belissimas-fotografias-vencedoras-do-wiki-loves-earth-2015/>, and Spanish <https://blog.wikimedia.org/es/2015/10/16/mira-las-asombrosas-fotografias-ganadoras-del-concurso-wiki-loves-earth-2015>? We also have Polish and German, but those are going to yield much smaller returns.
--Ed On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote: > If we want to prioritize languages by audience size, > > I'd say at least Spanish. Here's the current list of most popular language > interfaces of our followers. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We have translations for this post in Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, >> Macedonian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, and Ukrainian (plus Brazilian >> Portuguese is missing only one caption). Would it be worthwhile to post >> links on Facebook and geotarget, using the second sentence as a tagline? >> I'm not sure how many fans we have in each language. >> >> --Ed >> >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> 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] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Ed Erhart >> Editorial Associate >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- Ed Erhart Editorial Associate Wikimedia Foundation
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