Surely this should be "...'fowl' jokes *on* Wikipedia" (not "to")?
Otherwise LGTM, except I'd go with this for FB/G+ (or similar):
- When John Oliver called on the Internet to edit the Wikipedia biographies of US congressional representatives, the Internet answered -- and Wikipedia's volunteer editors started to clean up the vandalism. (link)
best, Joe
On 28 May 2015 at 01:49, Andrew Sherman asherman@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello Everyone,
We just published "A dark side of comedy: the impact of John Oliver’s ‘fowl’ jokes to Wikipedia" to the blog. URL:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/27/dark-side-of-comedy/
Thanks to Ed for writing and adapting his post from the Signpost to the blog. Thanks as well to Fabrice for editing.
Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.
*Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):*
• A dark side of comedy: the #Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind @iamJohnOliver/@LastWeekTonight's fowl jokes (link)
• Behind the veil: #Wikipedia volunteers clean up vandalism wrought by @LastWeekTonight's fowl jokes (link)
*Facebook/Google+*
• When John Oliver called on the Internet to edit the Wikipedia biographies of US congressional representatives, the Internet answered. This required Wikipedia's volunteer editors to clean up vandalism on a wide range of articles. (link)
Thanks,
-- Andrew Sherman Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
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