Excellent point, Joe.
Question: I went to the links posted on the meta wiki as suggestions for
tweets for articles to be improved, but the links take you to a page asking
you to create said article. Would that be strange, asking people to improve
an article that doesn't exist yet? Or am I seeing this
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marie_Serneholt&action=edit&redlink=1>
wrong? I thought these tweets were to encourage people who were just
getting their feet wet editing.

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 Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
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>>>>
>>>>
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