Thanks for those excellent thoughts, Johan. I think we can indeed tweet to articles that need help. (We're figuring that out with Wikipedian on this list, as a matter of fact.) But I don't think we can tweet the viability of content (as in stating facts), and then send people to pages that question those facts in the interests of encouraging 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 Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Johan Jönsson <[email protected]> wrote: > 2015-11-11 22:09 GMT+01:00 James Alexander <[email protected]>: > >> Certainly fine if we'd rather not (especially if we want to have it as a >> more concrete policy). On a personal front I'm generally of the opinion >> that if the article is relatively good from a reading standpoint the >> banners are ok and may actually remind people they can help clean it up. >> (also the mobile site strips the templates out... so I didn't see them) >> > > (Hi everyone. I normally don't comment. Some of you know me from other > lists, meetings, or, well, because we work together.) > > It all depends on what the purpose of our social media is, of course. My > opinion is that one of the greatest problems of Wikipedia is the declining > number of editors on many language versions, often attributed (among other > things) to the fact that it's more difficult to find articles to edit, as a > lot of the low-hanging fruit is gone. In that situation, I certainly see a > point in every now and then linking to an article that is decent and will > supply the information promised in the tweet but has visible problems, to > remind people that, yes, there're certainly things left do and they're very > welcome to take part. Only linking to good material might reinforce the > idea that someone else is taking care of the problem. > > //Johan Jönsson > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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