[Social-media] Gender as a text field: What Wikipedia can learn from Facebook

Hello social media team,

We just published 'Gender as a text field' on the blog:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/09/gender-as-a-text-field/

Many thanks to Amanda for writing this post, to Siko for recommending it and to Andrew for publishing it. Great teamwork! :)

Here are proposed social media messages for this story:

Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):

Gender as a text field: What Wikipedia can learn from Facebook about gender identification. (link) #genderdiversity

Facebook/Google+

Gender as a text field: What Wikipedia can learn from Facebook about gender identification. We are more than our sex and more than our gender, and many users want more nuanced options for identifying themselves online. (link)

Comments welcome for tweaking the final message.

Thanks for helping share this story with our community!

Fabrice

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Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)