On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all,
I think this has been proposed before on this list, but I'm bringing it up again :)
We could potentially borrow DYK entries from Wikipedia's front page for use on social. Here's some benefits to this:
It's cheap, and requires only the avoidance of anything controversial/potentially promotional, It's a good way to keep our social feeds active, Wikipedia articles generally do very well on social media, as Michael can attest, and It's a great way to get more eyes on newly improved articles, which is good for the community.
The last point (encourage people to edit) is a great goal. Just as a little caveat though, again drawing from the experience with the 2013/14 experiments (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar/2014/01 etc.): Back then we frequently posted ENWP's "Today's article for improvement" ([[WP:TAFI]]) which is even more optimized - by the community - to invite that kind of engagement than DYKs. Matthew and I invested quite a bit of time in coordinating with the TAFI project community, who liked the idea. However, while I don't have the exact numbers ready, the impact was almost nonexistent - over the course of several months doing this, there were maybe one or two edits that could conceivably have been caused by our TAFI SM postings. Again, I don't want to discourage new experiments, but don't lose sight of impact, and don't rely on assumptions...
Some of them might need to be trimmed, but this is a potential one for Facebook as an example: • that the woman in Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back is the painter's wife, whom he often painted facing away from the viewer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_with_Young_Woman_Seen_from_the_Back
What do we think of this? (Forgive me if we already have an answer for this!)
best, Joe
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