I've had a dream since I was in comms about creating an extension that would not only let us accept tweet suggestions but also let us give a user right out for people (community members and staff) to tweet through the wiki in a logged fashion without having to know the password.
This isn't a crazy difficult extension (as in I could write it) but always required either A. Me to have time, B. Tech resources or C. Someone else to get excited and do it. A suffers from the traditional "sometime between '48 hours of non stop work' starting tonight and 'eventually when I find the time....' Timeline that my side projects have given work requirements/other priorities, B has always been tough and C .. Honestly I don't think we pushed it enough to fully test C out.
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On Jul 23, 2015, at 11:41, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
That sounds like a great idea. Is there an app that can handle tweet suggestions from external users? Meta is probably a good tool for this if there's no such app.
Joe
On Thursday, 23 July 2015, Ed Erhart eerhart@wikimedia.org wrote: In Juliet and I's 1v1, we discussed setting up a page where Wikimedians could propose content and social messages that we could then post on our feeds.
So, for example, if I wrote yet another article on a battleship, I could come up with an unusual fact and propose that we feature it on @Wikipedia, etc.
Thoughts?
--Ed
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote: This seems like something we could (should?) be doing more often I think. Thanks Michael for getting these out.
Joe
On 22 July 2015 at 18:31, Michael Guss mguss@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Katherine,
We shared the tetris effect, by the looks of the comments, it is resonating (I also thought it would be suitable for Twitter and G+):
Fb: https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10153402977008346
@wikipedia: https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/623906601703833600/photo/1
Wikipedia G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/100123345029543043288/+Wikipedia/posts/GvT2b3x...
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote: Awesome! I will connect you two directly. :)
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Michael Guss mguss@wikimedia.org wrote: These are great Katherine! Especially thanks to Tess for curating these ideas. I think this is what our followers would really enjoy and more importantly share with their friends.
> On Wednesday, July 22, 2015, Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote: > Some suggested posts from a volunteer. What do you think? > > mobile. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Tess Mayall" tess@mayall.com > Date: Jul 22, 2015 7:58 AM > Subject: Re: Facebook posts > To: "Katherine Maher" kmaher@wikimedia.org > Cc: > > > Hi Katherine, > > > > No problem at all. Wikimania looks like it was a huge success, congrats! Below are a few more posts, the bottom one is more evergreen content rather than news. > > > > Stephen Hawking announced a $100 million hunt for alien life this week. Did you know that he is the only guest star to play himself in the Star Trek universe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking_in_popular_culture > > > > How does CRISPR work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR > > > > Be careful playing too much Candy Crush or Farmville. The Tetris syndrome causes people to hallucinate or dream about the games they’re playing when they play too much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect > > > > Have a great week! > > > > Tess > > > > From: Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org > > To: Tess Mayall tess@mayall.com > > Sent: 7/21/2015 10:28 PM > > Subject: Re: Facebook posts > > > >> Hi Tess, > >> > >> Apologies for the delay in getting back to you, things were a little crazy with Wikimania! I hope you're doing well! > >> > >> Thanks for the kind words with regards to the latest news posts -- we're experimenting with how well they do on social, and it seems promising. Sort of silly it's never been done before :) And thank you for sending the ideas for social! I apologize that we didn't get the chance to follow up on them, they're quite compelling. I especially like the Pentaquark, which would be very interesting to our global audience. > >> > >> > >> > >> Katherine > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Tess Mayall tess@mayall.com wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi Katherine, > >>> > >>> It was great talking with you a few weeks ago. I’ve been closely following all of wiki’s social media posts - I love that you've been posting on the latest news! > >>> > >>> Below are a few other topical posts I thought might be good for Wikipedia’s Facebook page: > >>> > >>> The pentaquark may have been proven yesterday, but it's been predicted since the 60's. Read the full story behind the world's hottest particle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaquark > >>> > >>> 1st generation of #ipod: 5 GB for $399, new #ipodtouch: 128 GB for $400 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod > >>> > >>> Happy Birthday Arianna Huffington! Did you know her birth name was Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou? Stasinopoúlou Post doesn't have quite the same ring to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna_Huffington > >>> > >>> Hope this is helpful. If you’re ok with it, I might send you some ideas every few days. > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> Tess > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Katherine Maher > >> Chief Communications Officer > >> Wikimedia Foundation > >> 149 New Montgomery Street > >> San Francisco, CA 94105 > >> > >> +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 > >> +1 (415) 712 4873 > >> kmaher@wikimedia.org > >> > >>
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