Sounds good!

Joe

On 16 October 2015 at 20:21, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:

W/ Ed's tweak LGTM. Recommend posting to @wikimedia eight hours from now -- 8 p.m. PST, 5 a.m. GMT -- to catch Australia Saturday afternoon with FB targeted to Australia same time. If no objections or quibbles I'll schedule.

Jeff Elder

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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org> wrote:

That sounds more accurate to me not mention a nice plug for Wikipedia. 

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Ed Erhart <eerhart@wikimedia.org> wrote:

The Facebook post is not (strictly speaking) accurate. They're just cataloging them on-wiki, not preserving them. Perhaps "During World War I, despite being forbidden by their superiors, many Australian soldiers kept a personal diary small enough to hide in their top pocket. Now, over 1300 of them are cataloged on Wikipedia." ?

--Ed

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hey all,

We just published "Gathering memories from the trenches of the Great War" to the blog. URL:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/

Many thanks to Michael for this post.

Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.

Twitter (@wikipedia/@wikimedia):
• How @statelibrarynsw is preserving Austalian war diaries with Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/

Facebook/Google+:
• During World War I, despite being forbidden by their superiors, many Australian soldiers kept a personal diary small enough to hide in their top pocket. The State Library of NSW set out to collect them in 1919, and they're now being preserved on Wikipedia. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/

thanks,
Joe

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