HI folks,


I have only recently joined this list. You may know me as
"User:pigsonthewing", around the projects, and last year I took a
turn operating @WeAreWikipedia on Twitter. I'm also a Wikimedian in
Residence, currently with the Royal Society of Chemistry and with
ORCID. I look forward to collaborating more closely with you all.


I wonder whether we could use social media to promote a regular
(Daily? Weekly?). For instance, I recently tweeted:

   World's oldest working engine, at @thinktankmuseum, now in
   Catalan @Wikipedia - why not your language? http://ift.tt/1fPimQi

   https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/627138696765177857

(feel free to retweet it!) and I would prose that we choose articles
of international signifiane, and ask our social-media aware colleagues
around the world to promote the idea of translating them into their
own.

We'd need to balance sensitivty about choosing the source language and
the practicality of not asking a global audience to translate from
languages few of them speak. We could rotate between, for example,
English, French and Spanish, or target articles which already exist in
two or three languages.


--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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