Sorry, but can I understand this as a promotion link to Facebook pages (managed by community) is recommended for outreach Wikipedia, even if it isn't an "official Facebook page" managed by WMF or chapters/usergroups?
Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy Supporter, Wikimedian
2018-03-01 4:43 GMT+09:00 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org:
Facebook is a de-facto major venue of communication for a great majority of Internet users. Many communities, user groups, and chapters have some kind of formal presence on Facebook -- "groups" or "pages". Directing visitors to your wiki to *your own wiki's* presence on this other major platform, i.e. a direct link to your group/page on Facebook, is absolutely fine. It is *quite* different from, say, just linking to www.facebook.com or explicitly endorsing it as a platform ("Join Facebook! It's great!") in general.
As you note, a number of communities have done or are doing this. Especially for smaller communities, the impact of such link placement can be a significant driver of traffic (i.e. readers!) to your community group/page on Facebook, which itself is important for outreach, awareness, and volunteer recruitment, and therefore is mission-aligned.
Cheers,
Asaf
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:06 AM Jimmy Wales jimmywales@wikia-inc.com wrote:
Speaking only for myself, not as a member of the board, I don't know of any legal or other reason why this should not be done. I think we should be very careful about links or appearance of endorsement especially on article pages, but outreach to people in the world should take place wherever we find a willing and useful audience.
On 2/28/18 6:29 AM, Minata Hatsune wrote:
I know it based on local consensus, but what I mean here is: those consensus valid for WMF Term of Use and others policies or not? Because
it
same with Wikipedia have linked with 3rd party, which is a commerical website.
Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy Vietnamese Wikimedian
2018-02-28 18:52 GMT+09:00 James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com:
IMO this is based on local community consensus. It is not a global
policy.
James
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Minata Hatsune <
minatahatsune@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello, I have a question: is it legal and valid for Wikipedia
communities
put promotion links to their Facebook pages on public space as Main
Page
or
Sitenotice?
I see many of Wikimedia projects doing this, as Indonesia Wikipedia,
Arabic
Wikipedia, etc... Their Facebooks page also have blue checkmark of
as verified.
All what I concern is: Facebook is a commerical website, we put a
link
as
"official" to them, will it same with Wikipedia biased for Facebook
and
violated the NPOV policy? And in finally: is it OK if other projects
can
do
that? Vietnamese Wikipedia also have a discussion about sitenotice promotion to Facebook at < https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Th%E1%BA%A3o_lu%E1% BA%ADn/Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_b%C3%A1_trang_Facebook_%22Wikipedia_ ti%E1%BA%BFng_Vi%E1%BB%87t%22
. If this is OK, I think we have no reason to reject it.
Thank you!
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