Hello everyone,
Tonight 5pm local time is the second in a series of "Wikipedia Wednesdays"
at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Here's some proposed social media.It is
sponsored by Art+Feminism. Thank you for your review.
Facebook:
Fb/G: Wikipedia Wednesday at the Art Gallery of Ontario invites
participants to an evening of capturing history and adding Canadian artists
to Wikipedia.
Link:
http://torontoist.com/2015/09/editing-the-wikipedia-narrative-of-women-in-a…
*Then, I was thinking of geo-targetting to Toronto the RSVP page.*
Fb: You're invited to to edit the Wikipedia narrative of women in art.
http://www.ago.net/artfeminism-wikipedia-wednesday1
t: In Toronto? You're invited to invited to edit the Wikipedia narrative of
women in Art @Torontoist Link:
http://torontoist.com/2015/09/editing-the-wikipedia-narrative-of-women-in-a…
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Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
Just checking if anyone has objections for us to share this link from our
social media accounts: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlm-stats/#countries
Would be great to let our follower know who is in the league periodically!
Thanks!
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Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
Dear colleagues,
Aligned with discussions at the Wikimedia Conference about coordinating
press releases around the world, I would like to invite you to participate
in the drafting and upcoming publication of a community-written press
release that celebrates English Wikipedia's milestone of 5 million
articles. I particularly extend this invitation to affiliates which are
located in areas where English (in any dialect) is a primary, official, or
common language.
Drafting and discussion are happening here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29#5_…
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Please ask your affiliates to participate in a near-simultaneous press
release from interested affiliates and WMF on the day that English
Wikipedia reaches 5 million articles.
Please make sure that your affiliate's contact information is current on
Meta so that it can be included in the press release. Journalists may wish
to speak with representatives of your organization about the press release
and about Wikipedia in general.
This event offers and opportunity to raise public awareness of Wikipedia in
general and our many accomplishments, as well as the many challenges and
opportunities ahead of us to make English Wikipedia in particular be more
accurate, friendly, inclusive, accessible, reputable, and comprehensive.
Regards,
Pine
Hey all - Ed's article is Today's Featured Article on Wikipedia today and
it would be cool to get it on social.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minas_Geraes-class_battleship
Proposed:
Twitter:
• Did you know that Brazil's Minas Geraes-class battleship started a naval
arms race in South America? [link]
Facebook:
• São Paulo, the second of two Minas Geraes-class battleships, went missing
without trace in a 1951 storm. The wreck has never been found. [link]
Joe
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*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)>
Hi all,
We just published "Discover more on Wikipedia with new navigation features
for Android app" to the blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/10/wikipedia-app-new-navigation-features/
Many thanks to Dmitry Brant for the post.
Proposed social media messages follow:
*Facebook/Google+:*
- Do you have an Android phone? Go see the changes we've made to improve
your browsing:
- Are you ready to fall even further down the Wikipedia wormhole?
- Are you ready to fall even further down the Wikipedia rabbit hole?
*Twitter:*
- Are you ready to fall even further down the Wikipedia wormhole?
- Are you ready to fall even further down the Wikipedia rabbit hole?
- Try the #Wikirace with our new app: (<-- NOTE that "Wiki Game" and
"Wikipedia Game" are some app <http://thewikigame.com/> that isn't ours.
I adopted Wikirace from Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikirace>.)
Please comment on these and propose new ones, if you're so inclined!
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Ed Erhart
Editorial Associate
Wikimedia Foundation
In my traditional love of the British Isles I'd like to recommend a tweet
about the Queen this morning as she surpasses Queen Victoria as longest
serving UK Monarch (and, believe, the longest serving reign of any Queen).
The traditional time it seems people are confidant about is around 17:30
BST and so 9:30 Pacific. I think it would be awesome if we could get
something out then. The front page of Wikipedia will change about the same
time to add this to In the News (currently here
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#September_9>
).
Thoughts:
- Today Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning British head of
state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II
- QE 2 is a featured article
- Could also use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_in_Britain_by_length_of_reign
- Today Queen Elizabeth II surpasses her great-great-grandmother Queen
Victoria [Link]
- Today Queen Elizabeth II surpasses Queen Victoria as longest reigning
UK monarch. [Link]
Great free Photo to use:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Elizabeth_II_March_2015.jpg
[Personally I like the purple better but there are a couple other good ones
at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_King…
]
For those interested (i.e. probably not many of you unless you're as nerdy
as I am) the Queen being smart and "celebrating" the day avoiding the
London politicians toasting her and doing official duties up north with
with the Scottish First Minister :).
James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
Hello everyone,
Education mood: here's a recent post from our friends at the Wiki Education
Foundation. Thanks for review!
http://wikiedu.org/blog/2015/09/07/the-roundup-japanese-theater/
Fb/G: Japanese playwrights get written into English Wikipedia
Fb/g: You can now read about award-winning Japanese playwrights on English
Wikipedia.
Fb/G: Student editors from the University of Washington have brought
Japanese playwrights to English Wikipedia.
t: You can now read about award-winning Japanese playwrights on English
Wikipedia (via @WikiEducation)
t: Japanese playwrights get written into English Wikipedia (via
@WikiEducation)
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Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
Hello everyone,
Harvard Crimson tweeted out this story about an edit-a-thon that was held
yesterday. Thank you for reviewing!
Here's the link:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/9/8/students-edit-wikipedia-feminist…
Fb/G: Poet Jenny Zhang now has a Wikipedia page, thanks to Harvard
students.
Fb/G: Harvard students made made significant contributions on pages
relating to feminists, BGLTQ and human rights issues on Monday.
t: Poet Jenny Zhang now has a Wikipedia page, thanks to edit-a-thon
@thecrimson <link>
t: Harvard students improve Wikipedia pages on feminism, BGLTQ & human
rights issues. @crimson
t: Harvard students 'dismantle the patriarchy' using Wikipedia. @thecrimson
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Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
