Social-media August 2015

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News on Wikipedia: Stock markets plunge, train attack thwarted, and more
by Joe Sutherland 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

Hey all, We just published "News on Wikipedia: Stock markets plunge, train attack thwarted, and more" to the Wikimedia blog. URL: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/25/stocks-plunge-train-attack/ We plan to send out five pieces of social for this story, spread through the rest of the week to keep things timely. Please do comment for tone. *Twitter:* • An airshow jet crashed into cars on a busy road last week. #NewsOnWikipedia • The ancient Temple of Baalshamin in Syria has been destroyed by ISIL. #NewsOnWikipedia • This week wasn't great for stockbrokers. #NewsOnWikipedia • A wildfire raging in Washington just became the state's largest ever. #NewsOnWikipedia • Train passengers fought off a gunman in France last week. #NewsOnWikipedia *Facebook/G+:* • At least eleven drivers were killed on Saturday as a jet plane crashed into a busy English road. #NewsOnWikipedia • The Temple of Baalshamin had stood for thousands of years. This week, it was announced ISIL had destroyed it. #NewsOnWikipedia • This wasn't a good week to be a stockbroker... #NewsOnWikipedia • A wildfire in Washington state has now burnt through over 400 square miles of land. #NewsOnWikipedia • Seven train passengers were awarded France's highest honor for their role in subduing a gunman. #NewsOnWikipedia best, Joe -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>

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Data suggests Google may not be to blame for drop in referrals to Wikipedia
by Ed Erhart 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hi all, We just published "Data suggests Google may not be to blame for drop in referrals to Wikipedia" on the blog. Thanks to Joe and Oliver for the post. Suggested social media messages follow: Facebook/G+: Is Wikipedia really losing pageviews from Google? Twitter: Is Wikipedia really losing pageviews from @Google? -- Ed Erhart Editorial Intern Wikimedia Foundation

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Crowdfunding free knowledge
by Joe Sutherland 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hey all, We just published "Crowdfunding free knowledge" to the blog. URL: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/27/crowdfunding-free-knowledge/ Many thanks to Tomasz for this post. Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. *Twitter (@wikipedia/@wikimedia):* • First editing as a crowd, now funding as a crowd https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/27/crowdfunding-free-knowledge/ • Kickstarting projects in the Wikimedia world https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/27/crowdfunding-free-knowledge/ *Facebook/Google+:* • The Wikimedia community has plenty of experience with mass-collaboration—these days, that includes funding. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/27/crowdfunding-free-knowledge/ thanks, Joe -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>

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"Days" today for possible promotion
by Joe Sutherland 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Hey all, Today is both Women's Equality Day[0] and National Dog Day[1]. We might consider writing up some social for one or both for later today? best Joe [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Equality_Day [1] http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2015/aug/26/national… -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>

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Documenting public art on Wikipedia
by Andy Mabbett 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

HI folks, I blogged at: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/public-art-wikipedia/ and tweeted: https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/636253335545360388 Please retweet, or make a tweet in your own words linking to my blog post; and to mention it on other social media If you tweet for a local group or chapter, please feel free to refer to your own locality. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Re: [Social-media] Proposed RTs
by Charles Gregory 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Hi everyone, Thoughts on sharing this - geotargetted to Australia, where possible? https://www.facebook.com/925565157522262/photos/a.925640017514776.107374182… Also shared by WMAU here: https://www.facebook.com/wikimedia.au/posts/876046522449041 https://twitter.com/wm_au/status/636188990530392064 Note: At the time of this email it is 11pm in Western Australia, 1am on the east coast. Possibly in about 8 hours time? Regards, Charles (User:Chuq) Wikimedia Australia On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Gregory Varnum <greg.varnum(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Responses below. >> >> -greg >> >> >> On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:57 AM, James Alexander <jalexander(a)wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >> Thoughts inline >> >> James Alexander >> Community Advocacy >> Wikimedia Foundation >> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur >> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >>> from @wikipedia and @mediawiki: >>> https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/631460768249200641 >>> >>> No real issues from mediawiki but this one worries me a bit from >> @wikipedia. It just sounds a bit too technical/inside baseball. Even I read >> it and went "arbitrary access? WTF is that?" before thinking harder and >> realizing they mean being able to call within templates etc. I worry that >> the vast majority of our audience would have no idea what this is. >> >> >> Agree that it is appropriate for @mw - seems less so for @wp >> >> OK, done from @mediawiki only. No strong feelings about that one, but > just as a general remark I think there is often value in (re)tweeting > something that might not be 100% accessible to all followers, but gives > even laypeople sort of an ambient sense of awareness ("OK, I don't fully > understand what's going on there, but nice that there's apparently progress > with Wikidata and Wikipedia".) > >> >> from @wikipedia: >> >> https://twitter.com/WikimediaCH/status/626066626308407296 >>> >>> Fine by me as long as we're ok with calling it Wikipedia's medical >> encyclopedia (possibly implying it's an official app?). >> >> >> I’m on the fence about these personally - has mobile weighed in on these >> set of apps? >> >> You're both raising good points, but Kiwix and Wikiproject Med have a > good reputation in the movement for what they do, and as a default > assumption I would trust a major chapter to use the "Wikipedia" mark > responsibly and adequately. (I'm actually working in the WMF Reading team, > i.e. the engineering department responsible for mobile including the main > WP apps, although this RT suggestion does not constitute a papal blessing > or anything ;) > I am more concerned about an official WMF-run Twitter account promoting > Wikiwand, as it happened recently. > >> >> from @wikicommons and perhaps others: >>> https://twitter.com/benglabs/status/629966289574957056 >>> https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/629670299580125185 >> >> >> LGTM >> >> >> LGTM from @wc and @wp - maybe @wm >> >> >> >>> >>> from @mediawiki, the first one perhaps also from @wikipedia: >>> https://twitter.com/brionv/status/629733830547509248 >> >> >> mayyyybe from @wikipedia, fairly technical though. @mediawiki for sure >> >>> >>> https://twitter.com/brionv/status/630384030509207552 >> >> >> LGTM for @mediawiki >> >> >> +1 for just @mw only >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> from @wikimedia and perhaps others: >>> https://twitter.com/danjarratt/status/631139320997392385 >> >> >> LGTM for @wikimedia/@wikipedia/@wikicommons >> >> >> +1 for all three >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > Tilman Bayer > Senior Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >

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Social re: Spanish interview with Patricio
by James Alexander 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Hey folks, Just saw this on my twitter stream: http://www.veintitres.com.ar/article/details/39695/no-tengo-buena-memoria looks like a pretty good interview with Patricio, as chair, that might be interesting from our Facebook (language targeted?) and Twitter. Thoughts? Copying in Comms internal list so that they can flag to wait/stop if it's an issue (only thing that stood out for me was frequent use of 'president' rather then 'chair' which is what we tend to use but could very easily be a language thing (and, to be honest, iirc he IS the president according to our articles of incorporation.... which for some odd reason we don't actually appear to have on wiki.... Also they mention Wikipedia a lot instead of Wikimedia but that isn't new and he talks about the Foundation specifically. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur

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Fwd: WP:60 • Week 38 | Anti-Disambiguation-arianism
by Katherine Maher 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

This disambiguation thing is pretty funny. We should do something with it at some point :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Beutler Ink <hello(a)beutlerink.com> Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:00 AM Subject: WP:60 • Week 38 | Anti-Disambiguation-arianism To: katherine(a)wikimedia.org Zen and the art of topical disambiguation [image: WP:60, a weekly Wikipedia newsletter from Beutler Ink] <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W5R4wjx51HfvKVrV71c…> [image: Beutler_WP60_logo_blog] Hi Katherine, Welcome to Week 38: "Anti-Disambiguation-arianism" • • • Disambiguation is a concept that got little public attention before Wikipedia (like the @ symbol was little-used before email). When a Wikipedia article needs a title <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W2Ll-Vx4vNSJ4W1n9Sc…>, but another topic already is using that name, what do you do? By devising a method to reduce the ambiguity. What Wikipedia usually does is adds parentheses after the formal title, selecting a phrase that most closely describes what is unique about each one. For example, several dozen John Smiths have met Wikipedia's notability <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W6jCgGZ3shYJsN23qrq…> requirement, so there are no less than six cricketers and seven footballers disambiguated only by their birth date <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W3j2ygq4TWy-bW75gT7…> . And all relevant examples (including similar spellings) are collected on a single page, the disambiguation page. One of my favorite ironies of Wikipedia: disambiguation has its own disambiguation page, naturally found at Disambiguation (disambiguation) <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W75bFpS1cfry2W1BccM…> . • • • *Missed any previous installments of WP:60? Never fear! You can catch up with the WP:60 archive <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W7zL_9J1LxtqbN2R2SJ…>.* *Next week: Autobiography* Why not share WP:60 with a friend? [image: Share on Facebook] <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W8kVd0l3JZ28RW3Cxp8…> [image: Share on LinkedIn] <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W1HD1T874syQbW3wt0p…> [image: Share on Twitter] <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W4Q-ZKb6VwFpsW8hvVK…> [image: Share on Google+] <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W1sCvKq5_zhZ-W2hDMWz4Dth9D0/*W2RfNd62GLBWTW6NS9f…> [image: Share on Email] <?subject=Check+out+http%3A%2F%2Finfo.beutlerink.com%2Fwp60_newsletter%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Demail+&body=Check+out+http%3A%2F%2Finfo.beutlerink.com%2Fwp60_newsletter%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Demail> Beutler Ink 1629 Columbia Rd. NW Suite 433 Washington, DC 20009 USA You received this email because you are subscribed to Wikipedia in 60 Seconds from Beutler Ink. Update your email preferences <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W18k7L_1fVnb2W8vqQLj1d25cp0/*W6cHqrK6FQwwMW1Hj9c…> to choose the types of emails you receive. Unsubscribe from all future emails <http://t.hsms10.com/e1t/c/*W18k7L_1fVnb2W8vqQLj1d25cp0/*VVZGyb8g5_k8W7pKHr7…> -- Katherine Maher Chief Communications Officer Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 +1 (415) 712 4873 kmaher(a)wikimedia.org

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News on Wikipedia: Explosions in China, Brazilian protests, and more
by Joe Sutherland 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hey all, We just published "News on Wikipedia: Explosions in China, Brazilian protests, and more" to the Wikimedia blog. URL: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/19/chinese-explosions-brazilian-protests/ We plan to send out five pieces of social for this story, spread through the rest of the week to keep things timely. Please do comment for tone - this is quite a morbid week... *Twitter:* • Thai police are seeking a suspect following a bomb blast in Bangkok. #NewsOnWikipedia • Tens of thousands took part in protests across Brazil on Sunday. #NewsOnWikipedia • Massive explosions in Tianjin, China, killed over a hundred people last week. #NewsOnWikipedia • Why were Jordan Spieth and Jason Day celebrating this week? #NewsOnWikipedia • Indonesia tragically suffered its third-most deadly plane crash in eight months on Sunday. #NewsOnWikipedia *Facebook/G+:* • A bomb blast at a shrine in Bangkok on Monday killed 23 people. #NewsOnWikipedia • Protests in all 26 Brazilian states on Sunday called for President Rousseff's impeachment. #NewsOnWikipedia • Last week's explosions in Tianjin, China, were so massive they could be seen from space. #NewsOnWikipedia • 22-year-old Jordan Spieth became golf's new number one this week—but he didn't win on Sunday. #NewsOnWikipedia • A 45-minute domestic flight in Indonesia ended tragically this week. #NewsOnWikipedia best, Joe -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>

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With the 13th anniversary celebration of Odia Wikipedia, the community also built strategy for way ahead
by Joe Sutherland 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hey all, We just published "With the 13th anniversary celebration of Odia Wikipedia, the community also built strategy for way ahead" to the blog. URL: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/21/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13/ Many thanks to Subha and Sailesh for this post. Note that we're hopfully going to change the headline for this one - in touch with Subha about this right now. Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. *Twitter (@wikipedia/@wikimedia):* • As the Odia Wikipedia turns 13, its community ponder its future https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/21/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13/ *Facebook/Google+:* • The Odia community used its thirteeth birthday to identify how it can encourage potential editors. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/21/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13/ thanks, Joe -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>

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