Although it won't make much of a difference in this case, you can save on your Twitter character count and make style-conscious Wikimedians happy by using an emdash (— or ALT+0151 on Windows machines) in place of the hyphen. :-)

Perhaps we could shorten that Facebook/G+ notification? "Just in time for its 13th birthday, the Odia-language Wikimedia community has deployed a character encoding converter to unlock the knowledge hidden from search engines by proprietary encoding systems. This new tool will help them enrich the Odia Wikipedia and spread the sum of human knowledge in their language."

Best,

--Ed

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I like that last tweet and I'll cut down that mega-size caption on FB/G. LGTM

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Sherman <asherman@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello Everyone,

We have published "How the Odia Wikimedia community is working to acquire content from newspapers and state portals" to the blog. URL:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/03/odia-wikipedia/

Thanks to Subhashish for writing the story and Ed, Fabrice, and Joe for editing.

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

Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):

• More citations for Odia Wikipedia (@odiawiki) as the community designs character encoding converters to make more content available in Unicode.

• The Odia Wikimedia community (@odiawiki) has built new converters, making Odia sources more accessible than ever.

• The Odia Wikimedia community (@odiawiki) has built a tool to make Odia sources easier to access and share.

• A 13th birthday present from the Odia Wikimedia community (@odiawiki) - a tool to make Odia sources easier to use.

Facebook/Google+

• The Odia-language Wikimedia community has successfully built character encoding converters to convert digital content from newspapers, magazines and portals created in proprietary non-standard encoding systems into Unicode. Because of mainstream media does not make use of the Unicode standard, a massive amount of content does not appear in search engines, and it is difficult to locate relevant content. The converters will help editors to search useful content online and, ultimately, enrich the Odia Wikipedia with new sources, just in time for its thirteenth birthday.

Thanks,

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Andrew Sherman

Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation

E: asherman@wikimedia.org

WMF: ASherman (WMF)

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