Yeah sure thing! On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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