Hello everyone,
Late to the thread, apologies. There has been quite a bit of interest in
what I call the "surfacing" of the content from the English Wikipedia
homepage as of recent, and I wholeheartedly agree this is a fine idea.
Personally, I've been experimenting with our accounts for the reception of
"extremely" interesting Wikipedia articles, brought to light by the
wonderful people at the Wikipedia subreddit and the Cool Freaks Wikipedia
group, and some other sources (which pass the test of being non-offensive,
culturally insensitive, or anything which would render a nasty media
mention, etc.). That said, I believe we have some "competition" on Twitter
with an account called "Wikipedia's DYK"
<https://twitter.com/DidYouKnowWP?lang=en> - this is ran by a community
member?
The #DidYouKnow is mostly them, but #DYK is far more popular. But that's
Twitter.
The editorial curation will need to be figured out I think. Ed, Joe, Andrew
myself are working on that, but we invite everyone to offer their opinion,
suggestions, comments, insights!
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:33 AM, James Alexander <jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Heh, fair point there was a lot of context missing
there ;)
For the record I'm all in favor, and I was doing a cheap joke for the
entertainment of those who knew the history :)
The worst problems are usually something that we will have on our radar,
these articles are not hard to quickly review, and the community IS
actually very good at reviewing these. When there are DYKs we're not
interested in sharing there is no issue skipping them, there are 24 a day
:) it's not like we're going to run out.
James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
Okay, fair point. In fairness I think something
like that's unlikely to
happen in the future :P
(For context for those unaware, he's talking about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltarpedia ... think this may have
been pre-Katherine :) )
On 6 August 2015 at 18:26, James Alexander <jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Joe Sutherland
<
jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
It's gotten a lot better in fairness.
Checking the article isn't awful
before we publish it on social is also pretty trivial, thankfully.
Joe
Yes.... Yes it has....
BUT DYK that Gibraltar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar> was
ceded to Britain "in perpetuity" under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713?
/Ducks/
James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
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