(changing the subject seems long overdue)
Hi all,
I wanted to share two cool things related to Mastodon and Wikimedia.
First, it's now possible to verify your Wikimedia account on
Mastodon[1]. The documentation for this is at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:RealMe>. Thanks to Taavi
who led the technical development and all the other people who provided
input during the process[2].
On 4/13/23 03:11, Kunal Mehta wrote:
In any case, I'm primarily writing this email to
let people know that we
have started a community-run Wikipedia Mastodon account, which you all
are invited to follow at <https://wikis.world/@wikipedia>, and more
importantly contribute to, details of which are available at
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/@Wikipedia>.
The @Wikipedia account has been posting about a month and a half now, so
I've written up a report of the experience and reception so far and
provided metrics[3] on individual posts:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/@Wikipedia/May_2023>. (We'll aim to do
similar metrics reports in the future, but likely won't advertise it as
widely as this list unless there's a desire for it.)
[1] For free, no need to pay $8 for the checkmark.
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322717
[3] All of these metrics are public, but require a bit of scripting to
aggregate.
Thanks,
-- Kunal / Legoktm