Thanks Andrew for these! I especially like the quotes from the Harvard faculty member (let me find his Twitter handle...). Let me tweak these and schedule them for tomorrow morning.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Andrew Sherman asherman@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Michael and I created some social last week for a Harvard article. URL:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/4/2/changing-wikipedia-attitudes-prof...
Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.
Tweet structure:
Account: @wikipedia
Wikipedia - @Harvard approved.
Top hits on @Google, @Harvard is on board, what’s next?
“Rather than complaining about it, why don’t we try to do good things with it.” -- Sean J. Gilsdorf
Its a big world out there. Never stop with only one source.
“The guilty secret of most academics is that they’re using Wikipedia, when they’re telling their students not to.” -- Sean J. Gilsdorf
Faculty members @Harvard pointed out several advantages of Wikipedia’s online format.
“Various Wikis often have more information than academically-sanctioned databases.” -- Sean J. Gilsdorf
“I think the collective encyclopedia is one of the truly thrilling innovations of our time.” -- W. James Simpson
FB | G+ structure:
Account: wikipedia
Professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences @Harvard said they see Wikipedia as more acceptable, even as a website that students can peruse for somewhat reliable information.
Harvard faculty believes distrust for Wikipedia has been replaced by a realization that the site can be “a good source for certain areas,” including basic scientific data and formulae.
Thanks,
-- Andrew Sherman Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
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