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(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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(a)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(a)gmail.com>om>:
> 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(a)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
>> Facebook
>>> 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!
>>>
>>> Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy
>>> Vietnamese Wikimedian
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