On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland(a)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.
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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While we certainly have discussed it before most of my memory of those
discussions ended with comments along the lines of "too much stuff the
social channels are really only useful for blog posts and we don't want to
be unprofessional by doing more social stuff that's for those other more
commercial organizations".
Even at the time (a very different time with far less resources in comms
which strongly limited what was possible etc) not everyone agreed and some
of us (<cough> Matthew Roth and myself </cough>) would randomly flout it by
having conversations with people doing twitter quizes etc. Over the past
year or so we've also grown not only the comms department but our desire to
have a larger social presence and so I think this is a perfect addition to
that and a good time to revisit the question.
I was about to list all of the bulleted reasons I think DYK is a good thing
to play with and post frequently but you already did that ;) so I'll just
agree with all of those (plus that we need to make DYK at least as popular
as TIL) .
I wonder if a good way to "Launch" it (we can obviously post some before
hand) is a blog post. If we have a nice piece that TALKS about the DYK
process: what it actually is and what it represents other then cool facts
etc, we can then put into perspective for people (press) and occasionally
re-share it either to people who mention us wondering about a DYK we posted
or just to remind people.
James
James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur