That’s a very good point of course, Charles. We do need to frame this toward the event and not toward Wikipedia itself to avoid that particular pitfall.
Joe
On 7 January 2015 at 9:57:17 pm, Charles Gregory (wmau.lists@chuq.net) wrote:
Great idea Dario - I occasionally schedule posts for known events (such as elections, major sporting events, or national holidays) - but breaking news - such as the Sydney siege - I held off, in case it looked like an attempt to take advantage of a tragic event for self promotion.
Having said that, the (traditional) news organisations do it all the time...
Jan - that URL gives an Application Error?
Charles / User:Chuq Wikimedia Australia
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote: It would be really cool if we could proactively use our social media presence to cover Wikimedia’s response to breaking news events [1], especially given the attention WMF put on major events in Victor’s video. I see potential POV issues with the choice of what topics to cover, but we’re missing a huge opportunity when we don’t celebrate in a timely way what Wikimedians are accomplishing.
Dario
[1] https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/552873236598243328
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