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Twitter handle of Wikipedia 15
by Nahid Sultan 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hi Folks,I've just created a twitter handle for 'Wikipedia 15', if anyone interested (specially social team) I'm happy to share the password. Link: https://twitter.com/Wikipedia_15Thanks. --- Nahid Sultan User:NahidSultan on all Wikimedia Foundation's public wikisCommunity Outreach Director of Wikimedia Bangladeshhttp://wikimedia.org.bd Facebook | Nahid Sultan Twitter | @nahidunlimited

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LGTY?
by Jeff Elder 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hoping to get some things scheduled if anyone is around to eyeball these. Tweet: Did you know? The marriage of Thomas Thynne of Longleat may have helped to inspire Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. http://buff.ly/1LZzul5 Tweet: Find out what happens when a journalist edits Wikipedia in a famous Argentine opera house. http://buff.ly/1LZBWrN Tweet: Elmer Stricklett is considered to have been the first baseball pitcher to master the spitball. http://buff.ly/1ZPFnW2 Tweet: Valerie Bettis was the first modern dance choreographer to work with a major ballet company. http://buff.ly/1LZCWfr Facebook: Florence Violet McKenzie, Australia's first female electrical engineer and a lifelong promoter for technical education for women, helped to introduce women into the Australian military and taught Morse code to thousands of sailors free of charge. http://buff.ly/1OD3hAs 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/>

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Social posts for Sunday - LGTY?
by Jeff Elder 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Twitter @wikimedia: The 1st webcam was hooked up to prevent pointless trips to coffee pot in University of Cambridge computer lab. http://buff.ly/1RhOHvX Facebook: On this day in 1954, music went portable as never before when the first practical transistor radio made in any significant numbers was announced. One year after the release of the TR-1 sales approached the 100,000 mark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio Twitter: Happy birthday to tennis great Martina Navratilova, with records for most singles and doubles titles in open era. http://buff.ly/1RhPvB1 Facebook: Happy birthday to tennis great Martina Navratilova, the only player in history to have held the top spot in both singles and doubles for over 200 weeks. http://buff.ly/1RhPvB1 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/>

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Jump into conversation about #theforceawakens?
by Jeff Elder 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

The new Star Wars movie is trending on Twitter. Tickets go on sale Monday. There's a detailed article page. Should we jump in? Facebook: Wikipedians have assembled lots of information about @The Force Awakens, the first live-action Star Wars film in 10 years. Tickets go on sale Monday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens Twitter: Facebook: Find out more about #TheForceAwakens, the first live-action @StarWars film in 10 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens 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/>

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Gathering memories from the trenches of the Great War
by Joe Sutherland 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

Hey all, We just published "Gathering memories from the trenches of the Great War" to the blog. URL: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/ Many thanks to Michael for this post. Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. *Twitter (@wikipedia/@wikimedia):* • How @statelibrarynsw is preserving Austalian war diaries with Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/ *Facebook/Google+:* • During World War I, despite being forbidden by their superiors, many Australian soldiers kept a personal diary small enough to hide in their top pocket. The State Library of NSW set out to collect them in 1919, and they're now being preserved on Wikipedia. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/ 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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Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for July-September 2015
by Tilman Bayer 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Forwarding regarding the WMF Communications team's quarterly review documentation (with quite a few bits about social media) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:15 PM Subject: Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for July-September 2015 To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Greetings everyone, the Wikimedia Foundation's quarterly reviews of teams' work in the past quarter (July-September, Q1 of the 2015-16 fiscal year) took place last week. Minutes and slides for those meetings are now available: Community Engagement: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Discovery: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Reading and Advancement (with Fundraising Tech): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Editing (comprising the Collaboration, Language Engineering, Multimedia, Parsing, and VisualEditor teams): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Infrastructure (comprising the Analytics, Release Engineering, Services, TechOps, and Labs teams) and CTO (comprising the Design Research, Research & Data, Performance, and Security teams): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Legal, Talent & Culture (HR), Communications, Finance & Administration & Office IT, and Team Practices: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… As usual, much of this information will also be available in consolidated form as part of the general WMF quarterly report for Q1, which is planned to be published on October 19. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… for some general background about the Foundation's quarterly review process. -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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Panda cub photo post
by Jeff Elder 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

We've had good luck with photos on Fridays (he says with a grand total of two under his belt). And this panda cub is too cute to pass up. Here are proposed posts, if they LGTY. Facebook: Happy Friday! Here's a smile from a 7-month-old panda cub. See more about this public domain photo from Wikimedia Commons. http://buff.ly/1NMh5Za Twitter: Happy Friday! Here's a smile from a panda cub. Public domain photo from Wikimedia Commons. http://buff.ly/1NMh5Za 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/>

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This year’s victorious monument photos from Pakistan
by Ed Erhart 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hi all, For a potential nice social post for this weekend, we've just published "This year’s victorious monument photos from Pakistan" to the blog. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/wiki-loves-monuments-pakistan-winners/ Thanks to Pine and the Signpost for this post. Proposed social media: - Fascinating photos have come to us from Pakistan. - They're all freely licensed, great for desktop backgrounds or Photoshop. -- Ed Erhart Editorial Associate Wikimedia Foundation

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When a journalist edits Wikipedia in a famous Argentine opera house
by Ed Erhart 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hi all, We've just published this to to the blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/editing-wikipedia-argentine-opera-hou… Thanks to Giselle for bringing us the post. Proposed social media messages follow: - It took place in the so-called "Golden Room": <link> [Facebook only] - "Family arguments in my grandmother’s house ended the moment Wikipedia came into our lives." <link> -- Ed Erhart Editorial Associate Wikimedia Foundation

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Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez
by Joe Sutherland 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hey all, We just published "Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez" to the blog. URL: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/creating-change-miguel-zuniga-gonzale… Many thanks to Tomasz and Caitlin for this post. Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. *Twitter (@wikipedia/@wikimedia):* • Meet Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez, working with students to improve Wikipedia's coverage of medicine https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/creating-change-miguel-zuniga-gonzale… *Facebook/Google+:* • "I don't think I really understood what intercultural communication was before I started editing Wikipedia." https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/creating-change-miguel-zuniga-gonzale… 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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