I'm not sure it's a great idea to post this to our socials. Seems to me like we'd be opening the list (which is public) to a lot of spam. But maybe I'm just being too cautious.
Joe On 26 October 2015 at 15:48, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Tilman for the background! I like the idea of posting about > articles that need attention. Let's do it! > > There does seem to be some overlap between this list and the meta wiki, as > Ed noted in the thread Tilman shared: > > *because few people besides Matthew and myself were checking* > *their Meta watchlist often enough, this mailing list proved to be a* > *much more reliable venue for people to post SM ideas for review and* > *get a timely response.* > > My take is that people can still use the meta wiki and I'm happy to swing > by it, but we may need to send stuff around this list anyway for a LGTM and > to do a little air-traffic controlling to prevent conflicts and traffic > jams. > > Should we tell people on Twitter and Facebook that they can subscribe to > this list? If so, should we say: > > T: > Want to give input on what and how we tweet? Sign up for our social media > email list here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > FB: > Want to give input on what and how we post on Facebook? You can give > feedback here, or take part by signing up for our social media email list > here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > > > Jeff Elder > Digital communications manager > Wikimedia Foundation > 704-650-4130 > @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> > @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> > The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> (splitting this off into a new thread, as it's a separate topic from TAFI) >> >> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Andrew Sherman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I remember Ed, Joe, Michael, and I sat down to clean that page up back >>> in July (archive old information, add useful links for content). >>> >>> I have thought about the idea of utilizing this page more. We could >>> asking for social content from the whole movement like we do for blog posts >>> ( maybe even translations ;) ). >>> >> Of course we are already asking for (and getting) social content from the >> whole movement with this list. See also the list description at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media . That said, >> some community members might prefer posting on a wiki. >> >> As a reminder, in August there was already some discussion about reviving >> the Meta page (in the same thread); here is my takeaway from that on why >> the parallel wiki/mailing list process didn't quite work out back in >> 2013/14 and what might be required to make it work: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/social-media/2015-August/003211.html >> >> >>> It could help with organization and preparation of content. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> as I summarized two months ago >>>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/social-media/2015-August/003213.html> >>>> on >>>> this list in another context, back in 2013/14 we collaborated with the >>>> "Today's >>>> Article for Improvement" >>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement> >>>> team on the English Wikipedia, posting social media invitations to edit >>>> improve articles from this community-curated list. >>>> >>>> User:Coin945 has just started an attempt to revive this (see >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement#Social_media_blurbs >>>> ) and already posted some ideas at >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar#October . I'm >>>> passing this on to this list as not everyone might watch the Meta-wiki >>>> pages. As mentioned earlier, the experiment back them left me wondering how >>>> to best achieve impact (in form of actual edits caused by those posts), but >>>> perhaps the current SM team has some new ideas. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tilman Bayer >>>> Senior Analyst >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> IRC (Freenode): HaeB >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Social-media mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Andrew Sherman >>> Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> *E:* [email protected] >>> *WMF:* ASherman (WMF) >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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)>
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