Just sent this out after some wordsmithing with Ori:
https://twitter.com/mediawiki/status/630865572654264320
Thoughts about featuring it on the other accounts too? If the
"asynchronous" Yodaish humor is too nerdy for a general audience to
retweet it directly, we could also use this wording or something
entirely different:
Noticed Wikipedia got a lot faster since Friday? We now load all
JavaScript asynchronously. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107399
[+graph screenshot]
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
Social media for promoting Wikidata!
Michael, can you target our German audience on FB?
mobile.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Nicole Ebber" <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Aug 13, 2015 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Wmfcc-l] Vote for Wikidata!
To: "Communications Committee" <wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hi Katherine,
Happy to share some German language:
Tweet version: Land der Ideen: Jetzt abstimmen und dem ausgezeichneten
Projekt @wikidata den Publikumspreis sichern!
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/08/10/ausgezeichnet-wikidata/
Facebook version: Jetzt für Wikidata abstimmen: Im Wettbewerb der
Initiative "Deuschland – Land der Ideen" kann Wikidata den
Publikumspreis gewinnen. Bis zum 23. August kannst du **täglich** für
Wikidata abstimmen:
https://www.land-der-ideen.de/ausgezeichnete-orte/preistraeger/wikidata
--> (or add the link to our blogpost:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/08/10/ausgezeichnet-wikidata/)
Thanks for sharing, we'll re-share. ;)
Nicole
On 12 August 2015 at 22:30, Michael Jahn <michael.jahn(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Hi Katherine,
>
> important question, indeed! I'll answer quickly, before we lose a day: We
> double-checked the rules. Voting is open to anyone with a valid email
> address. No restrictions as to employees or affiliates of nominees.
> (Wouldn't say that that's common practice in Germany, either. Rather
> unusual.)
>
> We'll share some German language with you. Thanks for the suggestion!
>
> Best
> Michael
>
> 2015-08-12 21:51 GMT+02:00 Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org>:
>>
>> Hi Nicole,
>>
>> This is fantastic news, congratulations! Do you think you could share
some
>> language in German that we could use on Facebook? Facebook allows us to
>> select by language and location, so we could easily target our German
>> speaking Facebook followers to encourage them to vote.
>>
>> One quick question before I vote: In the US, contests like these are
often
>> not open to employees of the organizations in question. I certainly
wouldn't
>> want to run afoul of any rules -- do you mind confirming that this
contest
>> doesn't have a similar exception?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are happy to announce that Wikidata is one of the 100 winning
>>> projects of the “Germany – Land of Ideas” competition 2015. With your
>>> support, Wikidata now even has the chance to win the Public’s Choice
>>> Award!
>>>
>>> At the moment, Wikidata is on rank 15. We need to be among the first
>>> 10 to enter the next round and win the Public’s Choice Award. Voting
>>> is open for you until 23 August.
>>>
>>> The information about the competition and projects is available in
>>> English[1,2], but the voting process only in German. But fear not,
>>> it’s very easy to vote anyway:
>>>
>>> 1. Please go to the Wikidata voting page:
>>> https://www.land-der-ideen.de/ausgezeichnete-orte/preistraeger/wikidata
>>> 2. Click the yellow button on the right ("Jetzt abstimmen").
>>> 3. Type in your email address and tick the box to agree to the voting
>>> rules.
>>> 4. You will receive a link via email. Click the link within 24 hours.
>>> 5. BONUS: **Repeat daily until 23 August** (yes, you can vote every
day!)
>>>
>>> Please help us spread the word and thank you for supporting Wikidata.
>>>
>>> Nicole
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
https://www.land-der-ideen.de/en/projects-germany/landmarks-land-ideas/comp…
>>> [2]
>>>
https://www.land-der-ideen.de/en/projects-germany/landmarks-land-ideas/2015…
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Adviser to the ED, International Relations
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Hi all,
We just published "Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias
than traditional publishers" to the Wikimedia blog.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/07/systemic-bias-wikipedia-vs-publishers
Comments on the tone would be appreciated—I veered a little bit into
passive-aggressive territory.
*Twitter:*The Basic Art series from @TASCHENBooks is missing 100 famous
women, but #Wikipedia has them all.
*Facebook/G+:*The Basic Art series from Taschen Books is missing 100 famous
women, but #Wikipedia has them all.
--
Ed Erhart
Editorial Intern
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
I'm attempting something new and getting pre-approved social for a post
we're putting up on the blog tomorrow morning. Those with WordPress access
can view a preview,
<https://wikimediablog.wordpress.com/?p=41409&preview=true> or read the
original Signpost article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-25/Op-ed.
I'm also wavering between the current title ("My father's railroad
photographs now benefit the world, free of charge") and the former title
("How my father’s railroad image collection now benefits the world: the
value of digitization"). Comments on this would be delightful.
*Twitter:*
- Ever wonder how your parent's train-watching hobby could change the
world?
- The heartwarming story of how one man's railroad image collection now
benefits the world:
(those borrow from my tweets when this was first published in the Signpost)
*Facebook/Google+:*
- His dad's and grandfather's old photos had been “tucked away with
other family artifacts” and only ever brought out of storage “every dozen
years or so." Now they can be enjoyed by everyone in the world.
- Ever wonder how your parent's train-watching hobby could change the
world?
--
Ed Erhart
Editorial Intern
Wikimedia Foundation