Great find, Andrew! We featured this last year too (it's an annual report, and WP was #1 then as well) and it was the most successful Facebook post of the first several months of 2014.

I would focus the messages on the superlative, Wikipedia's exceptional status as "the high-water mark for linguistic diversity on a website", rather than highlighting the incubator number (which comes from a separate Motherboard article that is nearly a year old, and is quite misleading anyway considering that new languages are added very rarely currently - I think only one in the last one or two years).

On the other hand, we shouldn't claim that WP has "more languages than any other website on the planet", because strictly speaking http://jw.org/ has material available in more languages (as someone pointed out in a comment on that FB post last year) - even though it was not included as a "leading" website in the study, probably justifiably so.

So I would suggest to simply go with this quote instead:

@wikipedia:
"Wikipedia is far and away the language leader, supporting nearly 300 languages." 
http://www.smartling.com/2015/02/12/global-website-development/ (by @johnyunker)

Or we could RT https://twitter.com/smartling/status/578631024491401216 .

FB/G+:
"Wikipedia is far and away the language leader, supporting nearly 300 languages." 
http://www.smartling.com/2015/02/12/global-website-development/




On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Andrew Sherman <asherman@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello Everyone,


Found this interesting story - it was  published last month, but I believe it is evergreen content therefore I wrote some social.Thanks for reviewing!


It really demonstrates Wikipedia's relative success in brining the world's languages online. Take a look. Some nice graphs here. 


http://www.smartling.com/2015/02/12/global-website-development/


Tweet structure:


Account: @wikipedia


t: Wikipedia supports more languages than any other website on the planet.


t: Study: Wikipedia leads in supporting the most languages online. @Google, @Facebook, @Microsoft follow. #


t: 288 languages and counting. Way to go editors!


Facebook structure:


Account: wikipedia


f: There are 533 proposals for Wikipedia languages in incubator stage, more than twice the number of actual Wikipedias. Wikipedia is on track for doubling their language repository.


f: Most websites have yet to surpass five languages, Wikipedia has close to 300.


f: 288 languages approved, 533 proposed. “What you see reflects user initiative.”


Google+ structure:


Account: wikipedia


g: There are 533 proposals for Wikipedia languages in incubator stage, more than twice the number of actual Wikipedias. Wikipedia is on track for doubling their language repository.


g: Most websites have yet to surpass five languages, Wikipedia has close to 300.


g:288 languages approved, 533 proposed. “What you see reflects user initiative.”

Thanks,

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