LGTM!
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Jeff Elder <jelder(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
I'd like to get this up today because of
Halloween. Not sure that
hashtag will mean much to folks. I only see one tweet using it, from more
than two years ago. What about?
Wikipedia editors - or those wanting to get started - the comedy horror
genre needs your help. Get spooky!
http://buff.ly/1WnWeL3
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/>
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Coin945 <coin945wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> That's good news. :)
>
> So I guess I'll make the first proposal:
>
>
> - T/I: This mash-up of media genres needs your help. Improve *comedy
> horror*, today's #wikiTAFI.
> - F/G: This mash-up of media genres needs your help. Add sources
> and improve content at *comedy horror*, today's #wikiTAFI.
>
> (The "Comedy horror" article -
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_horror - would be added as a
> link afterwards).
>
> The TAFI article changes every Monday, so after this status
> update, the next one will take place in 3 days.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Jeff Elder <jelder(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I think the upshot was that we love the social posts and mission of
>> TAFI, and probably need to stick to this thread for proposing them.
>>
>> 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/>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Coin945 <coin945wikipedia(a)gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Just wondering... what are your opinions on moving forward with this
>>> TAFI proposal? It's been 3 days since my last reply. :)
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Coin945 <
>>> coin945wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This discussion thread is very confusing to navitage, but I think
>>>> I've read it all now (albeit out of order).
>>>>
>>>> To answer Jeff's question: yes, the links are supposed to link to
>>>> the Wikipedia pages, not the Wikimedia pages (which are understandably
>>>> redlinks).
>>>>
>>>> One of the two main purposes of TAFI is to encourage newbies to
>>>> become editors through interesting articles on important topics that
still
>>>> shockingly have underwhelming articles; this challenges the perceived
>>>> notion that "all the good topics have already been written
about".
>>>>
>>>> This social media collaboration was fantastic in intriguing people
>>>> throguh witty and engaging statuses that aimed to encourage passers-by
to
>>>> stop, consider, and then perhaps gfo to the link and hit
"edit".
>>>>
>>>> We had great success with this in the past, and I would love to get
>>>> things rolling again. This is part of a recent push I've been doing,
which
>>>> includes starting up the discussion of whether TAFI could ever return to
>>>> the main page.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jeff (switching topic back to the thread about TAFI),
>>>>>
>>>>> Coin945 (who posted these suggestions) is now subscribed to this
>>>>> list
>>>>> and can thus answer your question directly. But I think the matter
>>>>> was
>>>>> simply that the drafts had been copied over from Wikipedia to Meta
>>>>> without adjusting links, e.g. the first one was intended to link to
>>>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_horror instead of
>>>>>
>>>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comedy_horror&action=edit&…
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jeff Elder
<jelder(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Excellent point, Joe.
>>>>> > Question: I went to the links posted on the meta wiki as
>>>>> suggestions for
>>>>> > tweets for articles to be improved, but the links take you to a
>>>>> page asking
>>>>> > you to create said article. Would that be strange, asking
people
>>>>> to improve
>>>>> > an article that doesn't exist yet? Or am I seeing this
wrong? I
>>>>> thought
>>>>> > these tweets were to encourage people who were just getting
>>>>> their feet wet
>>>>> > editing.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Jeff Elder
>>>>> > Digital communications manager
>>>>> > Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>> > 704-650-4130
>>>>> > @jeffelder
>>>>> > @wikipedia
>>>>> > The Wikimedia blog
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Joe Sutherland <
>>>>> jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I'm not sure it's a great idea to post this to our
socials.
>>>>> Seems to me
>>>>> >> like we'd be opening the list (which is public) to a lot
of
>>>>> spam. But maybe
>>>>> >> I'm just being too cautious.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Joe
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On 26 October 2015 at 15:48, Jeff Elder
<jelder(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Thanks, Tilman for the background! I like the idea of
posting
>>>>> about
>>>>> >>> articles that need attention. Let's do it!
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> There does seem to be some overlap between this list and
the
>>>>> meta wiki,
>>>>> >>> as Ed noted in the thread Tilman shared:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> because few people besides Matthew and myself were
checking
>>>>> >>> their Meta watchlist often enough, this mailing list
proved to
>>>>> be a
>>>>> >>> much more reliable venue for people to post SM ideas
for
>>>>> review and
>>>>> >>> get a timely response.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> My take is that people can still use the meta wiki and
I'm
>>>>> happy to swing
>>>>> >>> by it, but we may need to send stuff around this list
anyway
>>>>> for a LGTM and
>>>>> >>> to do a little air-traffic controlling to prevent
conflicts
>>>>> and traffic
>>>>> >>> jams.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Should we tell people on Twitter and Facebook that they
can
>>>>> subscribe to
>>>>> >>> this list? If so, should we say:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> T:
>>>>> >>> Want to give input on what and how we tweet? Sign up for
our
>>>>> social media
>>>>> >>> email list here:
>>>>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> FB:
>>>>> >>> Want to give input on what and how we post on Facebook?
You
>>>>> can give
>>>>> >>> feedback here, or take part by signing up for our social
media
>>>>> email list
>>>>> >>> here:
>>>>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Jeff Elder
>>>>> >>> Digital communications manager
>>>>> >>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>> >>> 704-650-4130
>>>>> >>> @jeffelder
>>>>> >>> @wikipedia
>>>>> >>> The Wikimedia blog
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Tilman Bayer <
>>>>> tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>>> >>> wrote:
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> (splitting this off into a new thread, as it's a
separate
>>>>> topic from
>>>>> >>>> TAFI)
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Andrew Sherman
<
>>>>> asherman(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>>> >>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> I remember Ed, Joe, Michael, and I sat down to
clean that
>>>>> page up back
>>>>> >>>>> in July (archive old information, add useful
links for
>>>>> content).
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> I have thought about the idea of utilizing this
page more.
>>>>> We could
>>>>> >>>>> asking for social content from the whole
movement like we do
>>>>> for blog posts
>>>>> >>>>> ( maybe even translations ;) ).
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> Of course we are already asking for (and getting)
social
>>>>> content from
>>>>> >>>> the whole movement with this list. See also the
list
>>>>> description at
>>>>> >>>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media .
>>>>> That said, some
>>>>> >>>> community members might prefer posting on a wiki.
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> As a reminder, in August there was already some
discussion
>>>>> about
>>>>> >>>> reviving the Meta page (in the same thread); here is
my
>>>>> takeaway from that
>>>>> >>>> on why the parallel wiki/mailing list process
didn't quite
>>>>> work out back in
>>>>> >>>> 2013/14 and what might be required to make it work:
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/social-media/2015-August/003211.html
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> It could help with organization and preparation
of content.
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Tilman Bayer
<
>>>>> tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>>> >>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>> as I summarized two months ago on this list
in another
>>>>> context, back
>>>>> >>>>>> in 2013/14 we collaborated with the
"Today's Article for
>>>>> Improvement" team
>>>>> >>>>>> on the English Wikipedia, posting social
media invitations
>>>>> to edit improve
>>>>> >>>>>> articles from this community-curated list.
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>> User:Coin945 has just started an attempt to
revive this (see
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Today%27s_articles_for_improve…
>>>>> >>>>>> ) and already posted some ideas at
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar#October .
>>>>> I'm passing
>>>>> >>>>>> this on to this list as not everyone might
watch the
>>>>> Meta-wiki pages. As
>>>>> >>>>>> mentioned earlier, the experiment back them
left me
>>>>> wondering how to best
>>>>> >>>>>> achieve impact (in form of actual edits
caused by those
>>>>> posts), but perhaps
>>>>> >>>>>> the current SM team has some new ideas.
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>> --
>>>>> >>>>>> Tilman Bayer
>>>>> >>>>>> Senior Analyst
>>>>> >>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>> >>>>>> IRC (Freenode): HaeB
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>>
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>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> --
>>>>> >>>>> Andrew Sherman
>>>>> >>>>> Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> E: asherman(a)wikimedia.org
>>>>> >>>>> WMF: ASherman (WMF)
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>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> --
>>>>> >>>> Tilman Bayer
>>>>> >>>> Senior Analyst
>>>>> >>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>> >>>> IRC (Freenode): HaeB
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>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> --
>>>>> >> Joe Sutherland
>>>>> >> Communications Intern [remote]
>>>>> >> m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu | w: JSutherland
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