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Editing Wikipedia as community service in Mexico
by Andrew Sherman 06 May '15

06 May '15

Hello Everyone, We just published "Editing Wikipedia as community service in Mexico" to the blog. URL: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/05/community-service-in-mexico/ Thanks to Maria for writing the draft and providing a Spanish translation. Thanks to Walter for helping translate the English title. Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. *Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):* • Editing Wikipedia as community service in Mexico: a student shares her experience. (link) (see if there are any hashtags for either #WikiLearning or #TecdeMonterrey) *Facebook/Google+* • A Mexican student shares her experience editing Wikipedia as community service at Tec de Monterrey University. It was an opportunity for personal and professional growth, as well as a way to positively impact her community. (link) Thanks, -- Andrew Sherman Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation *E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org *WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>

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Sharing images of the earthquake in Nepal: Krish Dulal
by Fabrice Florin 05 May '15

05 May '15

Hi guys, We just published a quick update on the earthquake in Nepal on the Wikimedia blog — featuring the first photos on Commons and inviting folks to donate more: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/nepal-earthquake-images/ <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/nepal-earthquake-images/> Thanks to Victor and Andrew for helping prepare that story, despite limited resrouces. :) We propose the following social media messages: Twitter: Sharing images of the earthquake in Nepal: more donations welcome on @WikimediaCommons (link) Facebook/Google+: Here are some of the photos of the earthquake in Nepal, recently posted on Wikimedia Commons. We invite you to support relief efforts, as well as contribute more images on Commons, so they can be re-used by others. (link) Feel free to tweak as you see fit. Thanks for sharing! Fabrice _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)>

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Proposed Social Media for The Open Wikipedia Ranking
by Michael Guss 05 May '15

05 May '15

Hello everyone, I'm sure you are familiar with The Open Wikipedia Ranking that has been circulating about. Let's bring it to our social media accounts. Here it is: http://wikirank.di.unimi.it/index.html t: New Open Wikipedia Ranking tool shows "most popular" articles on English Wikipedia, its not perfect but still interesting: http://wikirank.di.unimi.it/index.html t: Open Wikipedia Ranking tool: Atheism, Communism, Agnosticism "most important" ideas on English Wikipedia: http://wikirank.di.unimi.it/index.html t: Open Wikipedia Ranking tool: "most important" food? Chocolate. http://wikirank.di.unimi.it/index.html f/b: New Open Wikipedia Ranking tool shows "most popular" articles on English Wikipedia, its not perfect but still interesting: http://wikirank.di.unimi.it/index.html f/g: "Most important" Wikipedia article about food? Chocolate. Most important idea? Communism. New Open Wikipedia Ranking shows top Wikipedia articles in a variety of different categories, from humans to "Brangelina". http://wikirank.di.unimi.it/index.html -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org mguss(a)wikimedia.org

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Wikimedians in Brussels map out key issues about the European Union’s digital future
by Andrew Sherman 04 May '15

04 May '15

Hello Everyone, We just published "Wikimedians in Brussels map out key issues about the European Union’s digital future" to the blog. URL: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/04/european-union-issues/ Thanks to Karl for for writing this post and helping us edit. Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. *Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):* • Wikimedians in Brussels map out key issues about the European Union's digital future (link) • Wikimedians enter the Brussels bubble to promote access to knowledge. (link) *Facebook/Google+:* • The European Union is discussing important issues that can impact Wikimedia projects, such as net neutrality regulation, a new data protection law and a major copyright reform. Wikimedia Sweden has created an overview of relevant proposals and invites you to help prioritize them. (link) Best, -- Andrew Sherman Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation *E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org *WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>

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"Elections and the Internet" Research from the Oxford Internet Institute
by Michael Guss 04 May '15

04 May '15

Does anyone read Wikipedia around the election time? - We think yes Election season is upon the UK and we have interesting research promoting Wikipedia as a reference (or rather demonstrating that is already a reference) for reading about candidates. Nice imagery as well. https://tahayasseri.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/elections-and-social-media-pre… t: UK Tories dominate @Wikipedia, beating #Labour, #UKIP http://elections.oii.ox.ac.uk/does-anyone-read-wikipedia-around-the-electio… t: Why are there so many more @Wikipedia articles on the #Tories than every other UK political party? http://elections.oii.ox.ac.uk/does-anyone-read-wikipedia-around-the-electio… t: Appears the #Tories have already won, at least in representation on @Wikipedia, shows #dataviz @TahaYasseri http://elections.oii.ox.ac.uk/does-anyone-read-wikipedia-around-the-electio… f/g: Why are there so many more Wikipedia articles on the Tories than every other UK political party? http://elections.oii.ox.ac.uk/does-anyone-read-wikipedia-around-the-electio… f/g: With the United Kingdom general election only days away, which political parties are already winning online? On Wikipedia, the Tories beat out the rest. http://elections.oii.ox.ac.uk/does-anyone-read-wikipedia-around-the-electio… f/g: This geographical distribution based on Wikipedia data reveals alarming disparity between UK political parties. https://tahayasseri.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/elections-and-social-media-pre… -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org mguss(a)wikimedia.org

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Social media for Haymarket Affair
by Victor Grigas 04 May '15

04 May '15

Proposed SM for May the 4th, the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair in Chicago: Twitter: (upload this image) : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haymarket_Flier.jpg Today is the 129th anniversary of the #Haymarket Affair, the effects of which can still be felt today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair FB/G+: (upload this image) : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haymarket_Flier.jpg May 4th, 2015 is the 129th anniversary of the #Haymarket Affair in #Chicago, the effects of which can still be felt today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WPZeroPetition> Wikimedia Foundation vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/

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What we learned from the blog survey
by Fabrice Florin 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Hello again social team, We just published our survey report about what readers think of the Wikimedia blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/blog-survey-results/ Thanks to everyone who helped with this study. I hope this research can help inform our next steps for the blog. More on this later. For now, we propose the following social media messages: Twitter: Our blog survey results are out: readers prefer quality over quantity, with more depth and relevance. Learn more. (link) Facebook/Google+: The Wikimedia Blog publishes community and tech news about Wikipedia and the free knowledge movement. Our recent survey results show that our readers prefer quality over quantity, with more depth and relevance -- and more community reports in more languages. Learn more in this report. (link) Feel free to tweak as you see fit. Thanks for sharing! Fabrice _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)>

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First 2015 Wikimedia Programs Evaluations reports examine Wiki Loves Monuments and other photo events
by Andrew Sherman 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Hello Everyone, We just published "First 2015 Wikimedia Programs Evaluations reports examine Wiki Loves Monuments and other photo events" to the blog. URL: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/22/first-2015-wikimedia-programs-evaluat… Thanks to Maria and Jamie for writing the post and helping us edit. Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. *Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):* • What is the impact of Wiki Loves Monuments and other photo events? Check out our new reports. (link) *Facebook/Google+* • What is the impact of Wiki Loves Monuments and other photo events? The first two Wikimedia Programs Evaluation reports show that these programs contributed 14% of the media uploaded to Commons from September 2013 to September 2014 -- and their photos were used in articles five times more than other uploads in that period. (link) Thanks, -- Andrew Sherman Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation *E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org *WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>

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100wikidays
by Juliet Barbara 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hi Everyone, This is a really cool project that we might want to highlight on social: 100wikidays <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays>. Spiritia, a Bulgarian Wikipedian, committed to writing a new Wikipedia article a day for 100 days. She started to promote it on social media and her friends joined in, so now there have been more than 700 new articles created through this project. Spiritia completed her 100th article this past weekend: 04-25Spiritia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spiritia>100 [image: Face-smile.svg] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Face-smile.svg>bg:Най-дългият годеж <https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B9-%D0%B4%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D…>en:A Very Long Engagement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Long_Engagement>, French WWI romantic movie, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunetd:Q936425 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936425>742 Thoughts on congratulating her on the 100th article and/or sharing the link to the project? It could also be a great blog post -- Haitham said he's encouraged Spiritia to submit a draft. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Haitham! -- *Juliet Barbara* Senior Communications Manager I Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94105 jbarbara(a)wikimedia.org I +1 (512) 750-5677

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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Gainesville
by Andrew Sherman 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hello Everyone, I just came up with some social for a story on the media report last week. Tim D'Annecy <http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/profile/tdannecy/> wants to host an edit-a-thon for Gainesville. URL: http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/2015/04/22/wikipedia-edit-a-thon/ Bellow are some proposed messages. Please tweak as needed. Tweet structure: Account: @wikipedia • “I propose that we hold an informal, yet structured, Edit-A-Thon to add information to Wikipedia articles about the history of Gainesville.” - @tdannecy • Putting Gainesville on the (Wikipedia) Map. Thanks @tdannecy for helping out! FB/G+ structure: Account: wikipedia • Thanks Tim D’Annecy for wanting to host an edit-a-thon. Gainesville history is more than welcome! Thanks, -- Andrew Sherman Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation *E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org *WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>

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