Hi all,
We've just published "#FREEBASSEL: Free culture advocate who built 3D
renderings of Palmyra missing in Syria
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/08/bassel-missing-syria/>" to the
Wikimedia blog.
In short, Bassel Khartabil, an open-source advocate who has been imprisoned
in Syria for three years, was moved to an undisclosed location last
weekend. His friends and family fear for his safety.
I'd like to ask the people on this list to get the word out on social media
(please retweet this ASAP
<https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/652164523671990272>!) and/or
translate the post into as many languages as possible.
Thanks, everyone.
--
Ed Erhart
Editorial Associate
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
We've published "Wikipedia awareness programs drive Bangla Wikipedia usage
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/01/bangla-wikipedia-student-awareness/>"
in ten(!) languages to the blog. Thanks to Nahid for the post!
Proposed social messages follow:
*Facebook/Google+:*
- They're teaching students how to effectively use Wikipedia to find
information—vital knowledge for the thousands of Bangladeshi students who
are now getting wide access to the Internet.
*Twitter*
- About half of the attendees did not know what Wikipedia is.
- Teaching students to effectively use Wikipedia to find information in
Bangladesh:
--
Ed Erhart
Editorial Associate
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
WMF Team,
Could you please help to post 1-2 of these on Wikipedia's Facebook and
Twitter pages?
An interesting point is the community itself completely handled it.
They did not ask for any funding or other thing from WMF or WMIN or CIS
A dozen of national-awards, Sahitya Akademi winning writers, first class
film directors, actress attended the event.
The next day was a Kolkata-Wiki meetup, powered by CIS (or CIS-A2K)
I am interested to have a few posts on Wikipedia Facebook and Twitter
channels.
(Biswarup Ganguly - our photo-man has not uploaded his photos still)
Bengali Wikipedians meet writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirshendu_Mukhopadhyay>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_bengali_festival_wiki_worksh…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_bengali_festival_wiki_worksh…
11 Oct Kolkata meet-up
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bangla_OCR_and_AutoWikiBrowser_Disc…
On 12 October 2015 at 23:36, Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Tito,
>
> Thanks for reaching out!
>
> Jeff Elder (jelder(a)wikimedia.org) manages the Wikipedia social channels.
> Ed Erhart (eerhard(a)wikimedia.org) manages the blog.
>
> We would encourage you to join the public social media discussion list
> (Social media discussion list for Wikimedia projects <
> social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org>) where you can directly suggest posts
> for sharing!
>
> Katherine
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Tito!
>>
>> The Wikipedia social media channels are run by the Communications team
>> (CCed). They should be able to work with you to give this work more
>> visibility.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Asaf
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Could you please help to post 2-3 of these on Wikipedia's Facebook and
>>> Twitter pages?
>>>
>>> West Bengal Wikipedins attended first ever Bengali literature festival
>>> in India (10 Oct Kolkata) as Knowledge partner.
>>> An interesting point is the community itself completely handled it.
>>> A dozen of national-awards, Sahitya Akademi winning writers, first class
>>> film directors, actress attended the event.
>>>
>>>
>>> The next day was a Kolkata-Wiki meetup, powered by CIS
>>>
>>> I am interested to have a few posts on Wikipedia Facebook and Twitter
>>> channels.
>>> (Biswarup Ganguly - our photo-man has not uploaded his photos still)
>>>
>>> Bengali Wikipedians meet writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirshendu_Mukhopadhyay>
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_bengali_festival_wiki_worksh…
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_bengali_festival_wiki_worksh…
>>>
>>> 11 Oct Kolkata meet-up
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bangla_OCR_and_AutoWikiBrowser_Disc…
>>>
>>> Could you please help to post 2-3 of these on Wikipedia's Facebook and
>>> Twitter pages?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Asaf Bartov
>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
>>
>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
>> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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
>
On 12 October 2015 at 23:36, Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Tito,
>
> Thanks for reaching out!
>
> Jeff Elder (
>
> jelder(a)wikimedia.org) manages the Wikipedia social channels. Ed Erhart (
>
> eerhard(a)wikimedia.org) manages the blog.
>
> We would encourage you to join the public social media discussion list
> (Social media discussion list for Wikimedia projects <
> social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org>) where you can directly suggest posts
> for sharing!
>
> Katherine
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Tito!
>>
>> The Wikipedia social media channels are run by the Communications team
>> (CCed). They should be able to work with you to give this work more
>> visibility.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Asaf
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Could you please help to post 2-3 of these on Wikipedia's Facebook and
>>> Twitter pages?
>>>
>>> West Bengal Wikipedins attended first ever Bengali literature festival
>>> in India (10 Oct Kolkata) as Knowledge partner.
>>> An interesting point is the community itself completely handled it.
>>> A dozen of national-awards, Sahitya Akademi winning writers, first class
>>> film directors, actress attended the event.
>>>
>>>
>>> The next day was a Kolkata-Wiki meetup, powered by CIS
>>>
>>> I am interested to have a few posts on Wikipedia Facebook and Twitter
>>> channels.
>>> (Biswarup Ganguly - our photo-man has not uploaded his photos still)
>>>
>>> Bengali Wikipedians meet writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirshendu_Mukhopadhyay>
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_bengali_festival_wiki_worksh…
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_bengali_festival_wiki_worksh…
>>>
>>> 11 Oct Kolkata meet-up
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bangla_OCR_and_AutoWikiBrowser_Disc…
>>>
>>> Could you please help to post 2-3 of these on Wikipedia's Facebook and
>>> Twitter pages?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Asaf Bartov
>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
>>
>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
>> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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
>
Stumbled across the remarkable public domain photos of Julia Margaret
Cameron in Commons. Her arresting photos include portraits of Darwin,
Longfellow, and Alice Liddell, the woman for whom "Alice in Wonderland" was
written. (Attached) I'd like to propose this post:
Facebook:
Discover the arresting portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron in Wikimedia
Commons, such as this 1872 photo of Alice Liddell, for whom "Alice in
Wonderland" was written. The Annie Leibowitz of her time, Cameron also
photographed Charles Darwin and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See her work
here: http://buff.ly/1js6KV8
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/>
