It's an idea, and the group is certainly entertaining and beloved by quite a few Wikipedians, like the "bad jokes..." pages on the English Wikipedia were before they were canceled. But in general I'm a bit wary of promoting "tee hee ha ha look how weird Wikipedia is" pieces to the general public. I'd like us to diminish rather than reinforce the notion that Wikipedia is a grab-bag of odd trivia instead of a serious encyclopedia. There's not need to use the official SM accounts to drive home the point that one can use WP to find out - to take one of the examples highlighted in the Mic article - who urinated on Winnie the Pooh, or - one of the most recent entries from a few hours ago - what a soggy biscuit is.
Considering this other article, I'm also a bit wary of officially recommending people to join: http://www.vice.com/read/cool-freaks-wikipedia-club-is-a-shitshow-of-esoteri... ("permabanning <name> because lol fuck you") But I don't know enough about this (quote from the Mic article) "infamous and famous" community to form an opinion which side is right in the controversy about banning etc. - one person's "fascist" (VICE) moderation might be another person's "zero tolerance against trolls". And I'm happy to be outvoted if other people think the upsides of featuring this on our SM feeds outweigh the downsides.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.org wrote:
What do you think of this story for our social media channels?
t: There's a Whole Internet Community Dedicated to Exploring the Wild Depths of Wikipedia http://mic.com/articles/106062/there-s-a-whole-community-dedicated-to-the-wi... via @gabebergado
f: Cool Freaks' Wikipedia Club: There’s a whole community dedicated to exploring the wild depths of the encyclopedia. http://mic.com/articles/106062/there-s-a-whole-community-dedicated-to-the-wi...
Join 30K members in a moderated Facebook group digging for Wikipedia treasures: https://www.facebook.com/groups/coolfreakswikipediaclub/
g: Cool Freaks' Wikipedia Club: There’s a whole community dedicated to exploring the wild depths of the encyclopedia. Join 30K members in a moderated Facebook group digging for Wikipedia treasures: http://mic.com/articles/106062/there-s-a-whole-community-dedicated-to-the-wi...
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