Hey all,
We just published "News on Wikipedia: Beijing wins Winter Olympics, MH370
wreckage recovered, and more" to the Wikimedia blog. URL:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/05/beijing-olympics-mh370-wreckage/
We plan to send out five pieces of social for this story, spread through
the next *three days* (or thereabouts) to keep things timely.
Please do comment for tone.
*Twitter:*
• China's capital Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• Barack Obama (@potus) announced his Clean Power Plan this week.
#cleanpower #NewsOnWikipedia
• Wreckage found on French island Réunion is from missing plane #MH370.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• Zimbabwe have requested the extradition of an American hunter for
#Cecil's killing. #NewsOnWikipedia
• Secretive Taliban leader Mohammed Omar actually died in 2013.
#NewsOnWikipedia
*Facebook/G+:*
• Beijing beat out Almaty of Kazakhstan to become the host city for the
2022 Winter Olympics this week. #NewsOnWikipedia
• Barack Obama unveiled his Clean Power Plan this week. #NewsOnWikipedia
• Plane parts found on the French territory Réunion were this week
confirmed as from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. #NewsOnWikipedia
• Zimbabwe last week requested the extradition of American hunter Walter
Palmer following the killing of Cecil the lion. #NewsOnWikipedia
• Currently, only two images exist of former Taliban leader Mohammed Omar.
This week it was confirmed that he died two years ago. #NewsOnWikipedia
best,
Joe
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I like the concept.
See also the thread "[Social-media] Wikipedia Picks: disaster, trial by
battle, and more"
Pine
On Aug 6, 2015 9:26 AM, "Joe Sutherland" <jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey all,
I think this has been proposed before on this list, but I'm bringing it up
again :)
We could potentially borrow DYK entries from Wikipedia's front page for use
on social. Here's some benefits to this:
- It's cheap, and requires only the avoidance of anything
controversial/potentially promotional,
- It's a good way to keep our social feeds active,
- Wikipedia articles generally do very well on social media, as Michael
can attest, and
- It's a great way to get more eyes on newly improved articles, which is
good for the community.
Some of them might need to be trimmed, but this is a potential one for
Facebook as an example:
• that the woman in Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior with Young Woman Seen
from the Back is the painter's wife, whom he often painted facing away from
the viewer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_with_Young_Woman_Seen_from_the_Back
What do we think of this? (Forgive me if we already have an answer for
this!)
best,
Joe
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*Joe Sutherland*
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JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>
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HI folks,
I have only recently joined this list. You may know me as
"User:pigsonthewing", around the projects, and last year I took a
turn operating @WeAreWikipedia on Twitter. I'm also a Wikimedian in
Residence, currently with the Royal Society of Chemistry and with
ORCID. I look forward to collaborating more closely with you all.
I wonder whether we could use social media to promote a regular
(Daily? Weekly?). For instance, I recently tweeted:
World's oldest working engine, at @thinktankmuseum, now in
Catalan @Wikipedia - why not your language? http://ift.tt/1fPimQihttps://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/627138696765177857
(feel free to retweet it!) and I would prose that we choose articles
of international signifiane, and ask our social-media aware colleagues
around the world to promote the idea of translating them into their
own.
We'd need to balance sensitivty about choosing the source language and
the practicality of not asking a global audience to translate from
languages few of them speak. We could rotate between, for example,
English, French and Spanish, or target articles which already exist in
two or three languages.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk