On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Joe Sutherland
<jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey all,
I think this has been proposed before on this list, but I'm bringing it up
again :)
We could potentially borrow DYK entries from Wikipedia's front page for use
on social. Here's some benefits to this:
It's cheap, and requires only the avoidance of anything
controversial/potentially promotional,
It's a good way to keep our social feeds active,
Wikipedia articles generally do very well on social media, as Michael can
attest, and
It's a great way to get more eyes on newly improved articles, which is good
for the community.
The last point (encourage people to edit) is a great goal. Just
as a
little caveat though, again drawing from the experience with the
2013/14 experiments
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar/2014/01 etc.):
Back then we frequently posted ENWP's "Today's article for
improvement" ([[WP:TAFI]]) which is even more optimized - by the
community - to invite that kind of engagement than DYKs. Matthew and I
invested quite a bit of time in coordinating with the TAFI project
community, who liked the idea. However, while I don't have the exact
numbers ready, the impact was almost nonexistent - over the course of
several months doing this, there were maybe one or two edits that
could conceivably have been caused by our TAFI SM postings. Again, I
don't want to discourage new experiments, but don't lose sight of
impact, and don't rely on assumptions...
Some of them might need to be trimmed, but this is a potential one for
Facebook as an example:
• that the woman in Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior with Young Woman Seen from
the Back is the painter's wife, whom he often painted facing away from the
viewer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_with_Young_Woman_Seen_from_the_Back
What do we think of this? (Forgive me if we already have an answer for
this!)
best,
Joe
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