On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hey all,
I think this has been proposed before on this list, but I'm bringing it up
again :)
We could potentially borrow DYK entries from Wikipedia's front page for
use on social. Here's some benefits to this:
- It's cheap, and requires only the avoidance of anything
controversial/potentially promotional,
- It's a good way to keep our social feeds active,
- Wikipedia articles generally do very well on social media, as
Michael can attest, and
- It's a great way to get more eyes on newly improved articles, which
is good for the community.
Some of them might need to be trimmed, but this is a potential one for
Facebook as an example:
• that the woman in Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior with Young Woman Seen
from the Back is the painter's wife, whom he often painted facing away from
the viewer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_with_Young_Woman_Seen_from_the_Back
What do we think of this? (Forgive me if we already have an answer for
this!)
best,
Joe
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ok, in an attempt to bump this thread to restart conversation (if any) and
flag it for Jeff's thoughts I realized that there is no good way to bump
the thread because almost every email you'd respond to would have different
amounts of context sitting in in the quoted portions and you'd generally
just be massively confused if you hadn't seen the full thread ( we were all
responding to different people, cutting out/quoting different people etc).
So attempting to be as fair as possible i'm just responding to Joe's email
and basically restarting it :) Also for the uninitiated among the active
participants (which I know includes more then just Jeff but also people
like Greg who have been active but not on here then) a tldr (apologies to
those who didn' t make the highlights):
- You can read the full thread in the archives starting from here
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/social-media/2015-August/003193.html>
.
- Joe emailed out a proposal for using English Wikipedia main page DYKs
as a rich source of ongoing information (see above for the good reasoning)
- I responded with some history of when we thought about this before
(Tilman did as well a bit later) and suggested that we advertise why we're
doing it with a 'launch' blog post about the DYK curation process on wiki
(which we can then use occasionally to explain the posts). [this was later
+1'd by Tilman/Joe/a couple others]
- I made an community inside joke about a dark time in the DYK history
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-09-24/News_and_notes>
which
Joe, Ed and I then felt the need to explain to everyone.
- Discussion amongst everyone about keeping it lean and reusing the
already written leads from WP as much as possible and a side discussion
talking about what types of stats to use.
James Alexander
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Trust & Safety
Wikimedia Foundation
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