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@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&redlink=1
.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jeff Elder <jelder@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@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@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@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@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@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_improvement#Social_media_blurbs
>>>>>> ) 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.
>>>>>>
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