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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