Yes, I think it’s a promising weekly series, that has the potential to serve two great goals:
• surface interesting content on Wikipedia
• get inside the mind of an active Wikipedia contributor

Both of these goals can serve our mission, but the second one interests me the most, because it can help build empathy and trust between readers and editors.

Nicely done, Ed and team!

BTW, here are the personal posts I just published. Feel free to use any of that copy, as you see fit :)

And I agree that we should also try promoting this story with individual images, as proposed in #3 and #4 below.

I also like the idea of using ‘Did you know’ posts more often, such as this one:

'Did you know ... that as late as 1818, English courts upheld your right to demand a trial by battle?'

-f

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Facebook:

Wikipedia Picks: five unusual and fascinating articles, recommended by guest editor Wehwalt, a top contributor of featured articles of Wikipedia. 
This is a new content experiment for the Wikimedia blog. What do you think of this weekly feature idea?

https://www.facebook.com/fabrice.florin/posts/10155735696325506?pnref=story 


Twitter:

Wikipedia Picks: five great articles, recommended by guest editor Wehwalt. What do you think of this new feature? 

https://twitter.com/fabriceflorin/status/614677634794926080


On Jun 26, 2015, at 10:03 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

That is a fun blog post. It reads like some of the more entertaining Signpost featured content reports.

Pine

On Jun 26, 2015 9:34 PM, "Ed Erhart" <eerhart@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I wrote most of these, so I won't LGTM, but please note that specific images go with the third and fourth proposed tweets/posts.

--Ed

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey all,

We just published "Wikipedia Picks: disaster, trial by battle, and more" to the blog. URL:


Many thanks to Gary for writing this post, as well as to Ed, Andrew and Fabrice for editing. 

Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.

Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):

• Wikipedia Picks: five articles on disaster, trial by battle, and more (link)
• "A notorious incident where a passenger ship sank during trip across the Atlantic, and few of the passengers survived ... Like #Titanic, but worse."
• The senator sacrificed his career for a group of African-American soldiers. [+image]
• That beard though. [+image]

Facebook/Google+:

• English Wikipedia editor Gary Greenbaum discusses five featured #Wikipedia articles—including a maritime disaster, a pioneer, and a horse trainer-turned-publisher. (link)
• Did you know ... that as late as 1818, English courts upheld your right to demand a trial by battle?

thanks,
Joe

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