RE: The flags - they have copyright issues unfortunately. It's a messy situation (the flag designs are copyrighted by their author but have been CC'd by the NZ government) I would rather avoid!
I'll load these into Buffer then :)
On 2 September 2015 at 20:15, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hey all,
We just published "News on Wikipedia: New Zealand selects flags, Google freshens up, and more" to the Wikimedia blog. URL:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/02/new-zealand-flags-google-logo/
We plan to send out five pieces of social for this story, spread through the rest of the week to keep things timely.
Please do comment for tone.
*Twitter:*
• New Zealand has picked the #flags its people will vote on this year #nzflags #NewsOnWikipedia
Looks good, anyway we could get a picture of all the options or copyright issues? (irony)
• What do you think of @Google's new logo? #NewsOnWikipedia
LGTM, obviously photo of logo. Commons will declare it PD ;)
• Alaska's Mount McKinley has a new name: #Denali. #NewsOnWikipedia
Has a new name or is getting a new name? Not sure if it's official yet. LGTM however
• Just the one world record set at this year's World Athletics Championships... #NewsOnWikipedia
LGTM
• Jihadist group ISIL destroyed another ancient Syrian temple this week. #NewsOnWikipedia
LGTM
*Facebook/G+:*
• One of four new flags could soon represent New Zealand, and its people aren't impressed #NewsOnWikipedia
• Google have radically changed their logo for the first time since 1999.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• Forty years later, and Alaska's Mount McKinley is now Denali.
#NewsOnWikipedia • This year's World Athletics Championships medal table was topped by Kenya for the first time ever. #NewsOnWikipedia • The ancient Temple of Bel in Syria was destroyed by jihadist group ISIL this week. #NewsOnWikipedia
best, Joe
LGTM, same comments above otherwise :)
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