Hi,
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:55 PM, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Something happened last week in @MediaWiki's Facebook... Guillaume's posts from young developers diving in our site? A FB bug?
Did we share that post directly on the Wikipedia page? That could have done it.
The posts were published from the Wikipedia facebook page and shared from the MediaWiki page. This was somewhat consistent with what we did on twitter and G+, where we posted from the Wikimedia accounts and retweeted/shared on Wikipedia and MediaWiki (we don't have a Wikimedia facebook page afaik).
I'm not sure how Facebook counts "total reach" or stuff like that, but the reach explosion might have been caused by the fact that the MediaWiki page was mentioned explicitly (aka linked) in a couple of those posts posted from the Wikipedia page.