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.