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/>
We tweeted a lot as it was happening - this
<https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/657606398520397829> was probably the
most popular. Friday afternoon and evening is really slow on social. I
propose scheduling these for in the morning. Thoughts?
Facebook for Saturday morning:
On Friday Wikipedians everywhere were honored on the world's stage in
Spain. The Princess of Asturias Foundation presented Wikipedia with an
award for being an “important example of international, democratic, open
and participatory cooperation” and took note of the thousands of volunteers
who “selflessly” contribute to the Wikimedia projects.
http://buff.ly/1kAzuvV
Twitter, Saturday morning:
In a ceremony Friday, Wikipedians everywhere were honored by Spain's
Princess of Asturias Foundation. http://buff.ly/1kAzuvV
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/>
Hello everyone (adding comms into this because this may be pertinent as
well):
Yesterday, the #NEWPALMYRA project launched a new online community platform
and data repository dedicated to the capture, preservation, sharing, and
creative reuse of data about the ancient city of Palmyra. Furthermore, the
collected data will be released into the public domain under a Creative
Commons Zero license at NewPalmyra.org. We, along with MIT Media Lab, EFF,
Mozilla, and others are listed as supporters.
On their landing page, you can download the Temple of Bel 3D model and it
includes a call for participation, specifically asking users to contribute
info and media about Palmyra to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
Thank you for reviewing and love to hear your comments.
t: You can help preserve the ancient city of Palmyra for future
generations. Find out how. #NEWPALMYRA
http://www.newpalmyra.org/
t: Sharing data, code, and art for the the past, present, and future of
Palmyra. #NEWPALMYRA
http://www.newpalmyra.org/
f: "By honoring its memory with a virtual site of collaboration we can
build a new community and highlight the plight of the Syrian people." --
Bassel Khartabil.
http://www.newpalmyra.org/
f: You can help preserve the ancient city of Palmyra for future
generations. Join in making #NewPalmyra a reality.
http://www.newpalmyra.org/
Wikimedia Commons Fb: You can help preserve the ancient city of Palmyra.
Join in making #NewPalmyra a reality by contributing images to Wikimedia
Commons. http://www.newpalmyra.org/
@wikicommons: You can help preserve the ancient city of Palmyra. Join in
making #NewPalmyra a reality by contributing images to Wikimedia Commons.
http://www.newpalmyra.org/
--
Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
Happy birthday, Catherine Deneuve, born this day in 1943. The French
actress has appeared in more than 120 films, from 1957 to a film due out
next year. See more about her here: http://buff.ly/1RYxBUO See more about
this public domain image on Wikimedia Commons here: http://buff.ly/1kvra09
Happy birthday, Catherine Deneuve, born this day in 1943. The French
actress has appeared in more than 120 films. http://buff.ly/1RYxBUO
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/>