Aye! For historical reference (and for your thoughts as you think about SM strategy) I'll bump a thread that Joe started a couple months ago to look into DYKs as a potential ongoing social source. You can also read the old thread in the archives (easier then trying to read through the quoted text which bounces all over the place...) starting at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/social-media/2015-August/003193.html

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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Yeah, great fodder there for social, James!

Jeff Elder
Digital communications manager
Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:21 PM, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I like the idea, in the spirit of socializing on wiki concepts within social I'm a fan of doing tweets like this and using the "DYK" or "Did you know" terminology/pattern at the start of the post. Looks like we have room to do either version at the front of this (though I haven't actually checked that yet).


context, if you haven't seen it before which I imagine you have, is the front page of English Wikipedia has cycling content under the header of "Did you know". It's content that is cycled every 8 hours and presents new or newly updated articles on the project nominated by the community members.

James Alexander
Manager
Trust & Safety
Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:
With new hit TV show bringing The Muppets new love, how about this bit of trivia? 

The old guys in the balcony on @TheMuppets are named Statler and Waldorf after famous NYC hotels. http://buff.ly/1iMgiKl

Jeff Elder
Digital communications manager
Wikimedia Foundation

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