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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