I agree with you Pine, but also with Jeff - there's a difference in tweeting about the community's interests and about the staff members' interests, even if the staff are also community :)
No skin off my nose in this case really. Was just a suggestion, and like all suggestions, can be declined! Joe On 14 April 2016 at 18:16, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm. I think that WMF already posted about Ed's battleships if I recall > correctly. I think that's like someone posting about their favorite flower, > animal, vacation spot, economist, car brand, or television series. Just as > on Wikipedia, people tend to write about subjects that they're interested > in. If we prohibited people from writing about all of their personal > interests, then we would have a very small number of writers. > > That said, what I would be thinking about are noteability and undue > weight. For example, someone tweetung daily from a WMF account about > different types of rocks would be a problem as that would likely give undue > weight to that subject. > > I'm sensitive to COI as well, but it's possible to be so sensitive to it > that lots of benign activities would fall under the definition of COI. > > Pine > > > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Fellow [remote] joesutherland.rocks | @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | +44 (0) 7722 916 433
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