Hi Joe (thanks for reaching out!)
Hi Andy! Yes, sorry for the delay! It is not a bad idea at all! I imagine you are also familiar with @WhatToTranslate https://twitter.com/WhatToTranslate? They also cover this on Twitter - I believe it is operated by our very own colleagues here at WMF. I think this is a great idea, and I could see this being a daily tweet for instance.
For the sake of clarity, would this be a @wikipedia or @wikimedia concept? I think we need to hash that out. Furthermore, who is curating the articles for translation and - like you said - into which language(s)?
Made sure to RT you : )
Thank you!
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Andy,
Sorry for the delay in replying here! This seems like a good idea. I'm not sure on the demographics of our Twitter followers but we have a solid understanding of those on Facebook, which might be useful (plus, there's also targeting by language!).
I think your tweet's wording comes off a little forceful, though that's easily fixed ("how about" instead of "why not" for instance).
Any other thoughts on this (from Michael especially)?
best, Joe
On 3 August 2015 at 19:04, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
HI folks,
I have only recently joined this list. You may know me as "User:pigsonthewing", around the projects, and last year I took a turn operating @WeAreWikipedia on Twitter. I'm also a Wikimedian in Residence, currently with the Royal Society of Chemistry and with ORCID. I look forward to collaborating more closely with you all.
I wonder whether we could use social media to promote a regular (Daily? Weekly?). For instance, I recently tweeted:
World's oldest working engine, at @thinktankmuseum, now in Catalan @Wikipedia - why not your language? http://ift.tt/1fPimQi
https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/627138696765177857
(feel free to retweet it!) and I would prose that we choose articles of international signifiane, and ask our social-media aware colleagues around the world to promote the idea of translating them into their own.
We'd need to balance sensitivty about choosing the source language and the practicality of not asking a global audience to translate from languages few of them speak. We could rotate between, for example, English, French and Spanish, or target articles which already exist in two or three languages.
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