Thanks for this, Samir. The comms team is investigating new methods of sharing and scheduling content on social media and hopefully this will make our feeds more active and engaging in the long run.

Joe

On 17 August 2015 at 05:27, Samir Elsharbaty <selsharbaty@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello everyone,

We all know that facebook posts on Wikipedia page get published usually right after getting approved by a second pair of eyes on this list. Most of posts are published during the working hours (9am - 5pm SF time 士2-3 hours) during the week (Monday-Friday). It makes sense for people to work during the normal working hours only but we are a global movement and these times are not necessarily the best for all time zones. For example I live in Egypt, and posts usually appear on my FB homepage around (6pm-3am). Also, sometimes we get 3-4 posts published in one hour while other times it's much longer between two posts.

In my modest POV, this has a simple solution which is using scheduled posts on FB. This way we can agree on a frequency of posts (e.g. one post/6 hours), and when someone has an approved post it gets scheduled for publication 6 hours after the last post in the queue instead of getting it published immediately. This way we will be in better communication with the whole world and every post will have some time to be read before another one comes. One exception to this could be breaking news and important announcements that need to be published right away. 

The same feature is available on Twitter BTW but I think it is only available for sponsored campaigns. 

I hope that helps and please let me know if anyone has any thoughts.

Thank you!

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