Hey all, We just published "News on Wikipedia: Beijing wins Winter Olympics, MH370 wreckage recovered, and more" to the Wikimedia blog. URL: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/05/beijing-olympics-mh370-wreckage/ We plan to send out five pieces of social for this story, spread through the next *three days* (or thereabouts) to keep things timely. Please do comment for tone. *Twitter:* • China's capital Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. #NewsOnWikipedia

• Barack Obama (@potus) announced his Clean Power Plan this week. #cleanpower #NewsOnWikipedia

• Wreckage found on French island Réunion is from missing plane #MH370. #NewsOnWikipedia

• Zimbabwe have requested the extradition of an American hunter for #Cecil's killing. #NewsOnWikipedia • Secretive Taliban leader Mohammed Omar actually died in 2013. #NewsOnWikipedia

*Facebook/G+:* • Beijing beat out Almaty of Kazakhstan to become the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics this week. #NewsOnWikipedia

For Omar, Joe and I previously discussed trying to jump on John Oliver's social pull.... and I nearly forget to get him the quotes to do so. My suggestions: The outside world knows very little about former Taliban leader Mohammed Omar, so little that it just found out he died two years ago. The US government, as <link>John Oliver</link> noted on Sunday, had "vivid descriptions" of him, including "hair: black" and "height: tall." Shorter: As John Oliver noted last Sunday, the US government was able to come up with "vivid descriptions" of former Taliban leader Mohammed Omar, including "hair: black" and "height: tall." Shortest: As John Oliver noted last Sunday, former Taliban leader Mohammed Omar "had been dead for two years, and [they] simply hadn't mentioned it. Best, --Ed On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:09 PM, James Alexander < jalexander(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > Nice! Comments in line. > > James Alexander > Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation > (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Joe Sutherland < > jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> We just published "News on Wikipedia: Beijing wins Winter Olympics, >> MH370 wreckage recovered, and more" to the Wikimedia blog. URL: >> >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/05/beijing-olympics-mh370-wreckage/ >> >> We plan to send out five pieces of social for this story, spread >> through the next *three days* (or thereabouts) to keep things timely. >> >> Please do comment for tone. >> >> *Twitter:* >> >> • China's capital Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. >> #NewsOnWikipedia >> > LGTM > > [Sidenote - this is going to make the mental disambiguation of saying > "Beijing Olympics" in my head really annoying] > > >> • Barack Obama (@potus) announced his Clean Power Plan this week. >> #cleanpower #NewsOnWikipedia >> > > LGTM > > >> • Wreckage found on French island Réunion is from missing plane >> #MH370. #NewsOnWikipedia >> > > Perhaps "French territory *of *Réunion" ? That sounds better to me > but I'm not actually sure if it's more correct/better. You'll know the > grammar side better then I :). Otherwise LGTM > > >> • Zimbabwe have requested the extradition of an American hunter for >> #Cecil's killing. #NewsOnWikipedia >> • Secretive Taliban leader Mohammed Omar actually died in 2013. >> #NewsOnWikipedia >> > > Both LGTM > > >> *Facebook/G+:* >> >> • Beijing beat out Almaty of Kazakhstan to become the host city for >> the 2022 Winter Olympics this week. #NewsOnWikipedia >> > > Hmmmm.... I'm torn between "Almaty of Kazakhstan" (which sounds > awesome but kinda sounds like an aristocratic name to me) and "Almaty, > Kazakhstan". Happy with either, otherwise LGTM > > • Barack Obama unveiled his Clean Power Plan this week. >> #NewsOnWikipedia >> > > LGTM > > • Plane parts found on the French territory Réunion were this week >> confirmed as from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. #NewsOnWikipedia >> > > Same "of" question as above, otherwise LGTM > > • Zimbabwe last week requested the extradition of American hunter >> Walter Palmer following the killing of Cecil the lion. #NewsOnWikipedia >> > > perhaps "f*ormally* requested the extradition" ? (I'm not actually > sure that's true but I think it is? Just thinking that's different then > some of the random statements they mentioned about wanting extradition > earlier). Otherwise LGTM > > >> • Currently, only two images exist of former Taliban leader Mohammed >> Omar. This week it was confirmed that he died two years ago. >> #NewsOnWikipedia >> >> > Hmm, I'm happy with this one (I like the images fact) but worry that > it could feel like a bit of a non sequitur. Perhaps tying it together with > something like: > > > - Currently, only two images exist of former Taliban leader > Mohammed Omar. *It's likely to stay that way unless more are found > because t*his week it was confirmed that he died two years ago. > #NewsOnWikipedia > > best, >> Joe >> >> -- >> *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