I'd like to get this up today because of
Halloween. Not sure that
hashtag will mean much to folks. I only see one tweet using it, from more
than two years ago. What about?
Wikipedia editors - or those wanting to get started - the comedy horror
genre needs your help. Get spooky!
Jeff Elder
Digital communications manager
Wikimedia Foundation
704-650-4130
@jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder>
@wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia>
The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/>
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Coin945 <coin945wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
That's good news. :)
So I guess I'll make the first proposal:
- T/I: This mash-up of media genres needs your help. Improve *comedy
horror*, today's #wikiTAFI.
- F/G: This mash-up of media genres needs your help. Add sources
and improve content at *comedy horror*, today's #wikiTAFI.
(The "Comedy horror" article -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_horror - would be added as a
link afterwards).
The TAFI article changes every Monday, so after this status update,
the next one will take place in 3 days.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Jeff Elder <jelder(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> I think the upshot was that we love the social posts and mission of
> TAFI, and probably need to stick to this thread for proposing them.
>
> Jeff Elder
> Digital communications manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
> 704-650-4130
> @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder>
> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia>
> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Coin945 <coin945wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Just wondering... what are your opinions on moving forward with this
>> TAFI proposal? It's been 3 days since my last reply. :)
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Coin945 <coin945wikipedia(a)gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> This discussion thread is very confusing to navitage, but I think
>>> I've read it all now (albeit out of order).
>>>
>>> To answer Jeff's question: yes, the links are supposed to link to
>>> the Wikipedia pages, not the Wikimedia pages (which are understandably
>>> redlinks).
>>>
>>> One of the two main purposes of TAFI is to encourage newbies to
>>> become editors through interesting articles on important topics that still
>>> shockingly have underwhelming articles; this challenges the perceived
>>> notion that "all the good topics have already been written about".
>>>
>>> This social media collaboration was fantastic in intriguing people
>>> throguh witty and engaging statuses that aimed to encourage passers-by to
>>> stop, consider, and then perhaps gfo to the link and hit "edit".
>>>
>>> We had great success with this in the past, and I would love to get
>>> things rolling again. This is part of a recent push I've been doing,
which
>>> includes starting up the discussion of whether TAFI could ever return to
>>> the main page.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jeff (switching topic back to the thread about TAFI),
>>>>
>>>> Coin945 (who posted these suggestions) is now subscribed to this
>>>> list
>>>> and can thus answer your question directly. But I think the matter
>>>> was
>>>> simply that the drafts had been copied over from Wikipedia to Meta
>>>> without adjusting links, e.g. the first one was intended to link to
>>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_horror instead of
>>>>
>>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comedy_horror&action=edit&…
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jeff Elder
<jelder(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Excellent point, Joe.
>>>> > Question: I went to the links posted on the meta wiki as
>>>> suggestions for
>>>> > tweets for articles to be improved, but the links take you to a
>>>> page asking
>>>> > you to create said article. Would that be strange, asking people
>>>> to improve
>>>> > an article that doesn't exist yet? Or am I seeing this wrong? I
>>>> thought
>>>> > these tweets were to encourage people who were just getting their
>>>> feet wet
>>>> > editing.
>>>> >
>>>> > Jeff Elder
>>>> > Digital communications manager
>>>> > Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> > 704-650-4130
>>>> > @jeffelder
>>>> > @wikipedia
>>>> > The Wikimedia blog
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Joe Sutherland <
>>>> jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I'm not sure it's a great idea to post this to our
socials.
>>>> Seems to me
>>>> >> like we'd be opening the list (which is public) to a lot of
>>>> spam. But maybe
>>>> >> I'm just being too cautious.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Joe
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On 26 October 2015 at 15:48, Jeff Elder
<jelder(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Thanks, Tilman for the background! I like the idea of
posting
>>>> about
>>>> >>> articles that need attention. Let's do it!
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> There does seem to be some overlap between this list and
the
>>>> meta wiki,
>>>> >>> as Ed noted in the thread Tilman shared:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> 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.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> My take is that people can still use the meta wiki and
I'm
>>>> happy to swing
>>>> >>> by it, but we may need to send stuff around this list
anyway
>>>> for a LGTM and
>>>> >>> to do a little air-traffic controlling to prevent conflicts
and
>>>> traffic
>>>> >>> jams.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Should we tell people on Twitter and Facebook that they can
>>>> subscribe to
>>>> >>> this list? If so, should we say:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> T:
>>>> >>> Want to give input on what and how we tweet? Sign up for
our
>>>> social media
>>>> >>> email list here:
>>>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> FB:
>>>> >>> Want to give input on what and how we post on Facebook? You
can
>>>> give
>>>> >>> feedback here, or take part by signing up for our social
media
>>>> email list
>>>> >>> here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Jeff Elder
>>>> >>> Digital communications manager
>>>> >>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> >>> 704-650-4130
>>>> >>> @jeffelder
>>>> >>> @wikipedia
>>>> >>> The Wikimedia blog
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Tilman Bayer <
>>>> tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>> >>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> (splitting this off into a new thread, as it's a
separate
>>>> topic from
>>>> >>>> TAFI)
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Andrew Sherman <
>>>> asherman(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>> >>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> I remember Ed, Joe, Michael, and I sat down to clean
that
>>>> page up back
>>>> >>>>> in July (archive old information, add useful links
for
>>>> content).
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> I have thought about the idea of utilizing this page
more. We
>>>> could
>>>> >>>>> asking for social content from the whole movement
like we do
>>>> for blog posts
>>>> >>>>> ( maybe even translations ;) ).
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> Of course we are already asking for (and getting)
social
>>>> content from
>>>> >>>> the whole movement with this list. See also the list
>>>> description at
>>>> >>>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media .
>>>> That said, some
>>>> >>>> community members might prefer posting on a wiki.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> As a reminder, in August there was already some
discussion
>>>> about
>>>> >>>> reviving the Meta page (in the same thread); here is my
>>>> takeaway from that
>>>> >>>> on why the parallel wiki/mailing list process didn't
quite
>>>> work out back in
>>>> >>>> 2013/14 and what might be required to make it work:
>>>> >>>>
>>>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/social-media/2015-August/003211.html
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> It could help with organization and preparation of
content.
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> Thoughts?
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Tilman Bayer <
>>>> tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>> >>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>> Hi,
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>> as I summarized two months ago on this list in
another
>>>> context, back
>>>> >>>>>> in 2013/14 we collaborated with the
"Today's Article for
>>>> Improvement" team
>>>> >>>>>> on the English Wikipedia, posting social media
invitations
>>>> to edit improve
>>>> >>>>>> articles from this community-curated list.
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>> User:Coin945 has just started an attempt to
revive this (see
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Today%27s_articles_for_improve…
>>>> >>>>>> ) and already posted some ideas at
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar#October .
>>>> I'm passing
>>>> >>>>>> this on to this list as not everyone might watch
the
>>>> Meta-wiki pages. As
>>>> >>>>>> mentioned earlier, the experiment back them left
me
>>>> wondering how to best
>>>> >>>>>> achieve impact (in form of actual edits caused
by those
>>>> posts), but perhaps
>>>> >>>>>> the current SM team has some new ideas.
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>> --
>>>> >>>>>> Tilman Bayer
>>>> >>>>>> Senior Analyst
>>>> >>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> >>>>>> IRC (Freenode): HaeB
>>>> >>>>>>
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>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> --
>>>> >>>>> Andrew Sherman
>>>> >>>>> Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>> E: asherman(a)wikimedia.org
>>>> >>>>> WMF: ASherman (WMF)
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>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>>
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>>>> >>>> Senior Analyst
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>>>> >> --
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