On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Heather Walls <hwalls@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Victor,

I very much agree to 1-6.


7.) I'd say we should time the tweeting / messaging of current events to remind readers that they can edit  the projects, and point them to appropriate 'how to get started' guides. There are other appropriate ways to guide the eyeballs we grab - fundraising, meetups, etc.

I'm not sure how timing relates to reminding about editing, but I could be misreading you. I also have misgivings about pointing to 'how to get started' guides because most of them are overwhelming. I do agree about pointing people to things -- talking about where to learn to edit in person, etc. I suppose we'd have to be careful about giving voice equally in the world and to various events.

I think what I'm saying is that we can use traffic from current events to highlight other things that are related or unrelated to those events in separate but well-timed posts.
 

 

Curious to hear other's thoughts.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
oh, and the first edit was to the French Wikipedia, so it might be weird to link to the enwp article
 
On Jan 7, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:

\o/

just note that as we speak there are articles in 37 languages 

On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:

This looks good to me.

Note you’ll have to drop one character to make it fit on Twitter.

I also recommend using the same copy for FB and Google+ for now, in the interest of time.

In general, I support the idea of responding more often to news events like these, to make our content and movement more relevant to people’s daily lives. I hope we can make this happen both on social media and on the blog, going forward.

Kudos to Dario for this excellent suggestion!


Fabrice


On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello everyone,

Following up on this:


t: Wikipedia coverage of the #charliehebdo shooting is now available in 26 languages. First edit was 1h after the event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting



On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali@wikimedia.se> wrote:
2015-01-07 22:57 GMT+01:00 Charles Gregory <wmau.lists@chuq.net>:

Jan - that URL gives an Application Error?

Yeah, today it seem to do that more than 90% of the times I try to load it (hence the comment on stability). 

/Jan


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