Hi Jeff (switching topic back to the thread about TAFI),
Coin945 (who posted these suggestions) is now subscribed to this list and can thus answer your question directly. But I think the matter was simply that the drafts had been copied over from Wikipedia to Meta without adjusting links, e.g. the first one was intended to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_horror instead of https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comedy_horror&action=edit&a... .
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Excellent point, Joe. Question: I went to the links posted on the meta wiki as suggestions for tweets for articles to be improved, but the links take you to a page asking you to create said article. Would that be strange, asking people to improve an article that doesn't exist yet? Or am I seeing this wrong? I thought these tweets were to encourage people who were just getting their feet wet editing.
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm not sure it's a great idea to post this to our socials. Seems to me like we'd be opening the list (which is public) to a lot of spam. But maybe I'm just being too cautious.
Joe
On 26 October 2015 at 15:48, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
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 Digital communications manager Wikimedia Foundation 704-650-4130 @jeffelder @wikipedia The Wikimedia blog
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_improvem... ) 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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