wrote: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/30/improving-wikipedia-texas-revolution/ *Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):* • This #Wikipedia editor devoted hundreds of hours to one article. • Two women are taking the lead on improving #Wikipedia's articles on the #Texas Revolution. Here's one of them. • Ever wonder why #Wikipedia's articles on the #Texas Revolution are so good? • 80 hours identifying sources, who knows how long reading them, and 300 hours of writing. And that's just one person.

• This #Wikipedia editor devoted hundreds of hours to one article. • Ever wonder why #Wikipedia's articles on the #Texas Revolution are so good? 80 hours identifying sources, an untold number of hours reading them, and 300 hours of writing. That's just one of the people who worked on it. • 80 hours identifying sources, an untold number of hours reading them, and 300 hours of writing. And that's just one of the people who worked on it. thanks, Joe

James- agreed. At the least, we need to push out two or more for Twitter—I think it's an underutilized resource. @Michael, can you post some of these tomorrow? Joe will be on a plane over the Atlantic Ocean. --Ed ​

Sometime, Michael, you're going to have to miss a beat ... ... but it will not be this day. :-) Thank you very much! --Ed On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Michael Guss <mguss(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Ed Erhart Editorial Intern Wikimedia Foundation

Furthermore, we'll be consistently resharing stories from now on. On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Michael Guss <mguss(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org mguss(a)wikimedia.org

Are we still planning to resocialize this story? We've still only had the two posts (one each for Twitter/Facebook). I believe that we're tracking likes and shares now, Alex, but it's hard to gauge *community *participation. The Signpost, for instance, gets plenty of comments because it's on-wiki and everyone has an account there. Perhaps the requirement for a WordPress account is too high a bar?

--Ed On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Ed Erhart Editorial Intern Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media

I'm not advocating for open commenting! That would be a lot of extra work for all of us. Social media is easy, but many community members won't comment because they don't use their real names on-wiki. --Ed On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Joe Sutherland &lt;jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org > > On 6 July 2015 at 14:00, Ed Erhart &lt;eerhart(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > >> Are we still planning to resocialize this story? We've still only had >> the two posts (one each for Twitter/Facebook). >> >> I believe that we're tracking likes and shares now, Alex, but it's hard >> to gauge *community *participation. The Signpost, for instance, gets >> plenty of comments because it's on-wiki and everyone has an account there. >> Perhaps the requirement for a WordPress account is too high a bar? >> > > Spam is a real issue with stuff like this, and I think social media > allows for easy enough commenting? > > Joe > > >> --Ed >> >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Alex Stinson &lt;astinson(a)wikimedia.org&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> Glad to see the post shared! Love it! >>> >>> It occurs to me as someone who has written several blog posts, and >>> supported several others: I am always dis-appointed a bit on the number of >>> comments on the blog post itself: but it seems that a lot of the >>> commenting/visibility will happen elsewhere. Is there a way to surface both >>> page views on the blog alongside number of likes/retweets, etc. I think it >>> would be great to get a sense of scale for community participation in >>> reading/hearing the stories on the platform itself (and maybe provide a >>> different incentive structure/invitation for participating in the blog, by >>> marking shares/retweets, etc as valid responses to the post). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >>> Alex Stinson >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Michael Guss &lt;mguss(a)wikimedia.org&gt; >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Furthermore, we'll be consistently resharing stories from now on. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Michael Guss &lt;mguss(a)wikimedia.org&gt; >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Good morning, >>>>> >>>>> The following has been shared: >>>>> >>>>> Fb: https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10153356481158346 >>>>> >>>>> @wikipedia: https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/616285297991655425 >>>>> >>>>> @wikimedia: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/616285818139856896 >>>>> >>>>> Wikipedia G+ : >>>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/100123345029543043288/+Wikipedia/posts/FBpBEV… >>>>> >>>>> Wikimedia G+ : >>>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108193079736330787108/108193079736330787108/p… >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Ed Erhart &lt;eerhart(a)wikimedia.org&gt; >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Sometime, Michael, you're going to have to miss a beat ... ... but >>>>>> it will not be this day. :-) >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you very much! >>>>>> >>>>>> --Ed >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Michael Guss &lt;mguss(a)wikimedia.org >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Ed, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have already scheduled these for tomorrow morning to meet the >>>>>>> most traffic. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Ed Erhart &lt;eerhart(a)wikimedia.org&gt; >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> James- agreed. At the least, we need to push out two or more for >>>>>>>> Twitter—I think it's an underutilized resource. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> @Michael, can you post some of these tomorrow? Joe will be on a >>>>>>>> plane over the Atlantic Ocean. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --Ed >>>>>>>> ​ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Michael Guss >>>>>>> Research Analyst >>>>>>> Wikimediafoundation.org >>>>>>> mguss(a)wikimedia.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Ed Erhart >>>>>> Editorial Intern >>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Michael Guss >>>>> Research Analyst >>>>> Wikimediafoundation.org >>>>> mguss(a)wikimedia.org >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Michael Guss >>>> Research Analyst >>>> Wikimediafoundation.org >>>> mguss(a)wikimedia.org >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Ed Erhart >> Editorial Intern >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > *Joe Sutherland* > Communications Intern [remote] > m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: > JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- Ed Erhart Editorial Intern Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media