Thanks, Tilman for the background! I like the idea of posting about articles that need attention. Let's do it! 

There does seem to be some overlap between this list and the meta wiki, as Ed noted in the thread Tilman shared:

because few people besides Matthew and myself were checking

their Meta watchlist often enough, this mailing list proved to be a

much more reliable venue for people to post SM ideas for review and

get a timely response. 

My take is that people can still use the meta wiki and I'm happy to swing by it, but we may need to send stuff around this list anyway for a LGTM and to do a little air-traffic controlling to prevent conflicts and traffic jams.  

Should we tell people on Twitter and Facebook that they can subscribe to this list? If so, should we say:

T:

Want to give input on what and how we tweet? Sign up for our social media email list here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media

FB:

Want to give input on what and how we post on Facebook? You can give feedback here, or take part by signing up for our social media email list here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media

Jeff Elder

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Wikimedia Foundation

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On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:

(splitting this off into a new thread, as it's a separate topic from TAFI)

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Andrew Sherman <asherman@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I remember Ed, Joe, Michael, and I sat down to clean that page up back in July (archive old information, add useful links for content). 

I have thought about the idea of utilizing this page more. We could asking for social content from the whole movement like we do for blog posts ( maybe even translations ;) ). 

Of course we are already asking for (and getting) social content from the whole movement with this list. See also the list description at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media . That said, some community members might prefer posting on a wiki.

As a reminder, in August there was already some discussion about reviving the Meta page (in the same thread); here is my takeaway from that on why the parallel wiki/mailing list process didn't quite work out back in 2013/14 and what might be required to make it work: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/social-media/2015-August/003211.html

It could help with organization and preparation of content. 

Thoughts?

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi,

as I summarized two months ago on this list in another context, back in 2013/14 we collaborated with the "Today's Article for Improvement" team on the English Wikipedia, posting social media invitations to edit improve articles from this community-curated list.

User:Coin945 has just started an attempt to revive this (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement#Social_media_blurbs ) and already posted some ideas at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar#October . I'm passing this on to this list as not everyone might watch the Meta-wiki pages. As mentioned earlier, the experiment back them left me wondering how to best achieve impact (in form of actual edits caused by those posts), but perhaps the current SM team has some new ideas.

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