The English Wikipedia community has managed the Main Page in English for
many years, including rapidly updated ITN and DYK sections. The prominence
of the Main Page has declined a little bit as a landing page, but it
suggests that there may be better alternatives to staff planning tweets out
a few weeks ahead and taking submissions via a Google form. Perhaps the
communications team can look into some of these options that might leverage
the strength and core competencies of the community?
~Nate
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 6:05 PM Lauren Dickinson <ldickinson(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well and
enjoying the new images
from the Webb telescope. They are truly incredible.
In response to Lodewijk's question, the Foundation's Communications
Department manages the English Wikipedia social media accounts (on
Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/>, Twitter
<https://twitter.com/Wikipedia>, and Instagram
<https://www.instagram.com/Wikipedia/?hl=en>), as well as the Wikimedia
Foundation accounts. There is more information about that on Meta-Wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media>.
We try to plan the content calendar about one to two weeks in advance, but
we stay flexible to react to current events and Wikimedia news. We always
welcome ideas for articles and content to share from both the Wikimedia
Foundation and Wikipedia channels. You can share ideas with us at any time
via this Google Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchEZ_-8jCJP6E6UQguy_MjOYgoNUfSyzNhbnWU5S1D9_aenw/viewform>.
Amplifying the work of volunteers in the movement is important to us, and
we value suggestions on opportunities for us to do this further.
Regarding the Webb telescope news, we are planning to share the related
Wikipedia article as this Friday's Article of the Week
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Article_of_the_week> on
Wikipedia's social media channels, and to highlight that the images are
available on Commons. Every Friday, we share an article that is relevant to
current global events and conversations (e.g. we shared about Hajj
<https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/1545492143023820813> last week), so
we thought the Webb telescope would be a perfect fit for this week.
We also look for opportunities to retweet posts from others related to
Wikimedia and current topics. For example, we just shared this post from
Wikimedia Chile <https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/1546936039968743425>
about the Webb images. With this approach, we can share about the same
topic in multiple ways, from a range of perspectives, and celebrate
community groups. Another way is by sharing blog posts and media coverage
that mention us.
With that in mind, another idea I would like to propose is a blog post on
Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/> that tells the story of how Wikimedia
communities responded to the release of the images and made sure
information and the photos were quickly available on Wikimedia projects.
This is just an idea. If anyone is interested in writing that blog, please
let us know! We can then amplify the post on social media to bring it more
visibility.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
Lauren
*Lauren Dickinson (she/her)*
Senior Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 1:43 PM effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
How is @Wikipedia (and similar accounts) being
managed right now? I'm
mostly curious about the process how the tweets are decided upon - is this
a staff-driven process or is there some community engagement? Is it planned
out long in advance, or reactive (or somewhere in between)?
Are there opportunities to better bolster the strengths of our community?
Lodewijk
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 9:30 AM Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We should all be answering questions :) The
public interest will only
grow with the glorious images coming out today.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:45 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder158(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Good day,
Yesterday, the James Webb telescope published its first image, called
"Webb's Frist Deep Field" (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb%27s_First_Deep_Field). An article
about the image existis in 14 languages. The tweet announcing it has
collected in less than a day more than 77.000 RTs and 275.000 likes (
https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970). The main
object of the image didn't have any article at any Wikipedia (not an item
at Wikidata) yesterday. Now we have an article in 8 languages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMACS_J0723.3-7327 and a category in
Commons.
Well, the Wikipedia twitter handle didn't tweet anything about this
achievement, and didn't give any contest to the image. (
https://twitter.com/wikipedia).
We could be answering questions. "By 2030, Wikimedia will become the
essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". We could be
centering free knowledge at Wikimedia.
Best,
Galder
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