The Macedonian community has also had success attracting attention to their social media channels via Facebook etc. links on sitenotice for a while. I believe they reached a staggering number of likes (~35000 was it?), from next to nothing. Those social media channels seem to have been used to considerable effect in drawing attention and attracting contributors to events like WLM.
This was discussed at the Wikimedia Central and Eastern European Meeting 2014. Notes from that session are still on Etherpad[1].
CCing Bojan for potential additional details.
A.
[1] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ceem14-pr
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
Nikola - but does it bring any added value to Wikipedia? Does number of active editors in Bulgarian Wikipedia increased because of it? Can you see it in Wikipedia statics? IMHO it is the only thing which might legitimate such an action.
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2016-02-19 1:41 GMT+01:00 Nikola Kalchev nikola.kalchev@gmail.com:
Hello Rodrigo,
on Bulgarian Wikipedia we put a text asking readers to like our Facebook page, our Twitter and Google+ accounts, as well to visit our blog [1].
The
Facebook likes went up from 1923 to 5381 in a month, 126 people followed
us
on Twitter (virtually nobody did it before that), 123 people followed us
on
Google+ and the reader numbers on our blog went significantly up (I don't have the data right now). Nobody in the community objected to this and we would probably do it again some day. We decided to remove it after a
month,
because we saw that the number of new likes declined over time.
Best regards, Nikola (User:Лорд Бъмбъри https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Лорд_Бъмбъри) Wikimedians of Bulgaria
[1]
https://bg.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0...
(it says "Like the page of Wikipedia in Bulgarian on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaBG. You can also follow us on
https://twitter.com/WikipediaBG and Google+ https://plus.google.com/103033788118241359476/posts as well as visit
our
blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/").
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Rodrigo Padula < rodrigopadula@wikimedia.org.br> wrote:
Hello fellows!
Since the end of the last year some contributors from pt.wikipedia are discussing regarding the idea of including the promotion of our
Page on site Notice [1]
That proposal was started by Teles, a Brazilian steward. He received a
lot
of local support.
The general idea is to bring more people from Facebook to access
Wikipedia
through our Facebook page, but what we are doing is redirecting users
from
pt.wikipedia to Facebook and including a free Facebook ads on
pt.wikipedia.
I would like to know if it is ok for the Wikimedia Movement and if this kind of Facebook promotional campaign was proposed and published in
other
wikipedias/wikimedia projects.
[1]
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/propostas/Inserir_p%C...
Best regards
Rodrigo Padula Coordenador de Projetos Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa http://www.wikimedia.org.br +55 21 99326-0558
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