These are good! I'd suggest using locations in the social copy ("a heat wave in Pakistan,...") so it's more eye-catching.
Joe
On 23 June 2015 at 21:38, Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Andrew Sherman asherman@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello Everyone,
We just published "News on Wikipedia: Charleston church shooting, Pakistan heat wave, Danish elections, and more" to the blog. Our second installment in this series! URL:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/23/news-on-wikipedia/
Thanks to Joe for writing the story and Ed, Juliet, and Fabrice for editing.
Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.
*note: We would like to promote the individual stories from this round up several times over Facebook and Twitter and have them point back to this blog post.*
*Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):*
• A mass shooting, a heat wave and the Danish elections - this week in news (link)
A tragic shooting, a heat wave, and elections in Denmark: this week in news on Wikipedia (no @ when you're tweeting from the WP account)
• Charleston church shooting: how was this news story covered on @Wikipedia? (link)
Not this one.
*Facebook/Google+:*
• Charleston church shooting: how was this news story covered on @Wikipedia? What do you think about this news feature on the Wikimedia blog? Please share your feedback in the comments below. (link)
Not this one.
• Here are some of the global news stories covered on Wikipedia this week: a tragic shooting, a heat wave and the Danish elections. This news roundup is a new content experiment for the Wikimedia blog. What do you think? Please share your feedback in the comments below. (link)
Thanks,
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