Hi everyone,
Can we promote the latest updates to the Android app on social? An idea
below to get us started. Thanks!
*Facebook/Twitter*
Do you have an Android device? Check out the latest updates to the
Wikipedia Android app!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en
Hello everyone,
We all know that facebook posts on Wikipedia page get published usually
right after getting approved by a second pair of eyes on this list. Most of
posts are published during the working hours (9am - 5pm SF time 士2-3 hours)
during the week (Monday-Friday). It makes sense for people to work during
the normal working hours only but we are a global movement and these times
are not necessarily the best for all time zones. For example I live in
Egypt, and posts usually appear on my FB homepage around (6pm-3am). Also,
sometimes we get 3-4 posts published in one hour while other times it's
much longer between two posts.
In my modest POV, this has a simple solution which is using scheduled posts
on FB <https://www.facebook.com/help/389849807718635>. This way we can
agree on a frequency of posts (e.g. one post/6 hours), and when someone has
an approved post it gets scheduled for publication 6 hours after the last
post in the queue instead of getting it published immediately. This way we
will be in better communication with the whole world and every post will
have some time to be read before another one comes. One exception to this
could be breaking news and important announcements that need to be
published right away.
The same feature is available on Twitter
<https://business.twitter.com/help/scheduled-tweets> BTW but I think it is
only available for sponsored campaigns.
I hope that helps and please let me know if anyone has any thoughts.
Thank you!
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Samir Elsharbaty,
Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
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education.wikimedia.org
maybe a retweet with some sort of thanks from Wikimedia?
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From: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:06 PM
Subject: [Wmfsf] CalNonprofits Muni ads featuring Wikipedia
To: wmfsf <wmfsf(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
... as one of many examples of how "nonprofits make life better for
Californians every day":
https://twitter.com/janmasaoka/status/628251666920415237 (rode behind
one of these buses today)
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Hey all,
We just published "News on Wikipedia: Google reshuffles into Alphabet,
Japan remembers, and more" to the Wikimedia blog. URL:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/11/google-reshuffles-alphabet-japan-reme…
We plan to send out five pieces of social for this story, spread through
the rest of the week to keep things timely.
Please do comment for tone.
*Twitter:*
• @Google surprised the tech world with new parent company Alphabet.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• Japan remembered the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this week.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• Egypt's Suez Canal reopened last week following a makeover.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• Typhoon Soudelor caused $1.4bn in damage in Taiwan and China.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• North Korea will officially move to "Pyongyang Time" on Saturday.
#NewsOnWikipedia
*Facebook/G+:*
• Looks like Google will need to Alphabetise their servers...
#NewsOnWikipedia
• Japan commemorated 70 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in the Second World War. #NewsOnWikipedia
• The New Suez Canal doubles the waterway's ship capacity in less than a
year. #NewsOnWikipedia
• Typhoon Soudelor made landfall in Taiwan and China last week, killing at
least 29. #NewsOnWikipedia
• North Korea is moving away from Japan—half an hour away, in fact.
#NewsOnWikipedia
...Since that last one might be a little too curt:
• North Korean clocks will go half an hour back on Saturday.
#NewsOnWikipedia
best,
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)>
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