Sounds like a good idea to me.

The Aaron Swartz blog post was just cited by someone over the weekend, and made for an interesting read to me, since I had not seen it before.

Done in moderation, links to good evergreens like this could be a fine addition to our more current posts.

-f

On Dec 8, 2014, at 2:26 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:

So after the "recycling" of the 2013 Aaron Swartz blog post went well
last month, Michael and I were thinking we should post SM for old
posts from the Wikimedia blog more often.

Here are some candidates that already continue to receive a
non-trivial baseline of pageviews:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/
(perhaps rather after the fundraiser, or with a message explaining the
difference between and fundraising banners)
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/02/seven-years-after-nature-pilot-study-compares-wikipedia-favorably-to-other-encyclopedias-in-three-languages/
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/17/carry-the-entirety-of-wikipedia-in-your-pocket-with-kiwix-for-android/
(this one is even more popular and also more general - not just
Android - :  https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/download-the-text-of-the-entire-english-wikipedia/
Unfortunately it's outdated and we haven't yet gotten Emanuel to write
a new one.)

And two which I think are suitable based on their topic:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/23/do-you-know-whats-around-you-let-wikipedia-tell-you/
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/04/sixty-ways-to-help-new-editors/

Other ideas, or thoughts about the above?
--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
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