2015-11-11 23:25 GMT+01:00 James Alexander <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We will absolutely remind people that they can edit! : ) >> >> I just think those messages need to be separate from posting our content. >> There's only so much each 140-character tweet can do, and I'm not sure we >> can simultaneously showcase specific content and use that same content to >> demonstrate that articles need work. >> > > Ahh, yes, this is where we disagree then :) apologies I hadn't quite seen > the distinction. I have always been a fan of red links (links to articles > that don't exist yet but probably should/could) and article notices and the > like as reminders that someone can indeed edit. I think showing off our > "not yet complete" content is a good thing and that it's sad if we only > show off what we think of as unmarked articles (in the end many of them > 'could' probably have notices/use more help they just haven't had someone > add them yet or people are lying to themselves). That's fine however :) > That's why we have lists like this for discussion and you/comms to make a > decision rather then flipping back and forth depending on the whim of who > happens to tweet that day. > > I'm glad that you're thinking of how to call for edits through SM too, I > do hope that we can find better ways to combine the two however. I think SM > messages simply asking for edits are relatively boring even for someone who > DOES edit a lot and I glaze over them, but it's incredibly common that I > click a link because of some cool fact/note and then make a little edit or > a change :). > Like James, I'm not here for a crusade, and won't harp on about this, but I think there'd be a point to treating the obviously not perfect articles as perfectly normal. Yet again, it all depends on what we want to use social media for. (Have we/you/Comms had that discussion, and are there any policy or strategy documents I could read, to avoid asking questions that have already been answered?) //Johan Jönsson --
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