Hi all,
We just published "Community view: why the news media needs Wikipedians in
residence" to the blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/26/news-media-needs-wikipedians/
Thanks to Rob for the post!
*Facebook:*
"To the English-language news media, Wikipedia is a foreign country."
"News coverage is inadequate for a website and movement as large and
influential as Wikipedia and Wikimedia."
*Twitter:*
"To the English-language news media, Wikipedia is a foreign country."
"This all struck me while I made a spontaneous visit to the @Newseum ..."
--
Ed Erhart
Editorial Associate
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK shared a post
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK/posts/1090100784335413> acknowledging
that the English Wikipedia page for Frank Sinatra has been now awarded the
status of a "Good" Article, thanks to volunteers. Why not share from our
accounts and thank them for their hard work!
Thank you for reviewing the following:
Fb: Thanks to Wikipedia volunteers, Frank Sinatra's Wikipedia page has now
been recognized as a "Good" article. Learn more about Ole' Blue Eyes.
http://buff.ly/1Mn5BeI
Fb: He's one of "the greatest singers of the 20th century," and now his
Wikipedia page has been recognized for its exceptional quality. Learn more
about Frank Sinatra.
Fb: Known as one of "the greatest singers of the 20th century," Frank
Sinatra's Wikipedia page now has been recognized as a "Good" article.
http://buff.ly/1Mn5BeI
T: Frank Sinatra's Wikipedia page has now been recognized as a "Good"
article. Learn more about Ole' Blue Eyes:
http://buff.ly/1Mn5BeI
T: Thank you, Wikipedia editors! Frank Sinatra's article is now a "Good"
article. Learn more about 'Ole Blue eyes: http://buff.ly/1Mn5BeIhttp://buff.ly/1Mn5BeI
--
Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
Traffic to our Jupiter article page is up 7000% because of the triple
conjunction with Mars and Venus this week. Good excuse to share another
awesome NASA public domain photo with this cutline?
Jupiter has at least 67 moons, including the four large Galilean moons
discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede, the largest of these, has
a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury. You can see its shadow
near the top of the giant planet in this public domain photo from NASA. See
more about Jupiter here: http://buff.ly/1LSbBGJ See more about this image
here: http://buff.ly/1kIp0KI
(Will shorten links.)
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/>
I have posted to Facebook and Twitter the posts we discussed here. (Lotsa
love.) There are two things related to Rajan I thought about posting this
weekend. This tweet:
https://twitter.com/arabiawa/status/657939331139653632
Is a great photo of her at the ceremony, and I wondered about just quoting
it and saying "We are so proud of the wonderful Wikipedian @RavanJaafar
honored this week along with all Wikipedians."
And posting her great YouTube video (Victor's polished artistry?) on
Facebook with the same phrasing as above and a link to the blog post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E5T94ThevE
Sound OK?
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/>
Friday morning I saw a tweet
<https://twitter.com/wxbrad/status/657533140756504576> from a TV
meteorologist exclaiming at the speed of edits to the Hurricane Patricia
article page on Wikipedia. That struck me, and we tweeted about the updates
several times as #Patricia went viral, including this tweet
<https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/657620646843707393> containing a
public domain GIF of the storm on satellite.
The GIF tweet was #1 in media views, #3 in gaining new followers for our
account, and #5 in engagements over the past 12 months. (Fear not: I am
*very* conservative about tweeting GIFs. Thank you, Michael, for
encouraging the experiment.)
Our Patricia tweets are roughly corollated to spikes on the article's page
views, but that's not due to a surge of clickthroughs. I'd like to think it
helped. (See attached.) The page went from nothing to 100K views in 24
hours, as James noted
<https://twitter.com/jamesofur/status/657807415203729409> on Twitter. We
hopped on the page's back for a ride, not the other way around.
But we got in that viral conversation, helped to demonstrate that news
unfolds on Wikipedia, and underscored our real-time relevance. (We're not
just waiting here for you to look weird stuff up.)
The Twitter bot @wikipediatrends <https://twitter.com/WikipediaTrends>
tweets page view spikes. I've subscribed to notifications so we can
continue to be opportunistic. Zack mentioned perhaps becoming a stock tile
or recommended account in Twitter Moments or another social media starter
kit for media. I'm working on it. I'm also beginning to look into Snapchat
possibilities.
Welcome any suggestions of real-time conversations to jump into, or ways to
do it better.
Thanks much,
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/>
