Thanks, Tilman!
I really appreciate your recommendations for when to post original content versus retweet existing posts.
I think you made the right call in this case, and I appreciate your retweet. :)
So did @BeeldenGeluid, which is doing fine work to support our movement as an external partner.
One thought worth considering for the future: blog roundups of some of the week’s most relevant tweets about our movement. This could be an easy way to leverage our social media work, to give more visibility to newsworthy events not covered on the blog.
Onward!
Fabrice
On Dec 3, 2014, at 6:56 AM, Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Fabrice,
I think the topic of improving our video content is totally appropriate, in particular for @wikicommons. As a general remark: If it's a project by an outside (non-Wikimedia) organization like in this case, a retweet is usually easier - before we heartily endorse a project and describe it as success directly from the official SM accounts, there should be some form of vetting beyond the organization's own statements. So it's useful if we can retweet the lead of the WMF multimedia team regarding a multimedia project ;) In any case, this particular organization has done projects before that were promoted by Wikimedia NL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#.22Wiki_Lov... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#.22Wiki_Loves_Sound.22_enriches_Wikipedia_with_audio_recordings
I have retweeted it from @wikicommons and @wikipedia.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org mailto:fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote: Here’s another possible candidate for sharing:
Video challenge on Wikipedia stimulates re-use of audio-visual heritage: http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/blogs/research-amp-development-en/201412/vide... http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/blogs/research-amp-development-en/201412/video-challenge-wikipedia-way-stimulate-reuse
This post describes their positive experience with a video challenge on the UNESCO World day for Audiovisual Heritage: over 400 videos were added to articles within three weeks. This is noteworthy, given that very few articles feature videos on Wikipedia at this time. Nicely done, @BeeldenGeluid !
I personally posted it here, if you’d like to retweet: https://twitter.com/fabriceflorin/status/539847861178212353 https://twitter.com/fabriceflorin/status/539847861178212353
Let me know if you think this type of local success story is appropriate for our social media channels, so I can calibrate my submissions in the future.
Be well,
Fabrice
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