On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Ed Erhart <eerhart@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> This sums it up pretty well, for those on the list without the benefit of
> context. Sigh. :-)
>
> Michael, Andrew, and I also discussed setting up a page where Wikipedians of
> all languages could come and propose social posts for us that link to
> articles they've written. I figured that we could adopt the DYK/TIL format
> for that.

As in indicated in the previous email, we set up such a page back in
2013 and ran it for a while, see e.g.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar/2014/01
Back then we drafted and reviewed in parallel on that Meta page and on
this mailing list, which involved a significant amount of overhead.
Also, 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. That's why the Meta page became inactive, in
contrast to this mailing list. Having said that, it might be worth
another try, assuming you have a critical mass of SM team members who
are living the wiki lifestyle to a sufficient degree in order to
ensure that submissions there get noticed and reviewed like they do
here ;)

>
> --Ed
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:33 PM, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Heh, fair point there was a lot of context missing there ;)
>>
>> For the record I'm all in favor, and I was doing a cheap joke for the
>> entertainment of those who knew the history :)
>>
>> The worst problems are usually something that we will have on our radar,
>> these articles are not hard to quickly review, and the community IS actually
>> very good at reviewing these. When there are DYKs we're not interested in
>> sharing there is no issue skipping them, there are 24 a day :) it's not like
>> we're going to run out.
>>
>> James Alexander
>> Community Advocacy
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Joe Sutherland
>> <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Okay, fair point. In fairness I think something like that's unlikely to
>>> happen in the future :P
>>>
>>> (For context for those unaware, he's talking about this:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltarpedia ... think this may have been
>>> pre-Katherine :) )
>>>
>>> On 6 August 2015 at 18:26, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Joe Sutherland
>>>> <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It's gotten a lot better in fairness. Checking the article isn't awful
>>>>> before we publish it on social is also pretty trivial, thankfully.
>>>>>
>>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes.... Yes it has....
>>>>
>>>> BUT DYK that Gibraltar was ceded to Britain "in perpetuity" under the
>>>> Treaty of Utrecht in 1713?
>>>>
>>>> /Ducks/
>>>>
>>>> James Alexander
>>>> Community Advocacy
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
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