Thanks for your feedback, MZ, Pine, Emily and John,
I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed this content collection about love.
We’ll review the impact of this curation experiment at the end of next week and share our findings afterwards.
I like Pine’s suggestion of hosting an office hours on this general topic. We’re planning a community outreach about the Wikimedia Blog next month, to learn how it and related media can best serve the needs of our movement. This seems like a good way to continue the conversation and I will propose a date here in coming weeks.
In the meantime, we welcome more feedback in the comments of this blog post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/love-on-the-wikis/
To be clear, when I asked ‘should we do this more often?’, I didn’t propose to restrict these experiments to just the topic of ‘love’. There are many other interesting topics for which we could surface great wiki content together: freedom, education, diversity or civility come to mind, for example. Or major news stories throughout the year. Other ideas welcome.
If these experiments turn out to be useful and cost-effective, we might consider hosting them monthly or quarterly, as needed.
Thanks again to everyone who participated in this quest for the many meanings of love.
I look forward to continuing this discussion in coming weeks. :)
Fabrice
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 09:09:55 +1100 From: John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis Message-ID: CAO9U_Z7T-X1UKAW5pRj69RZ9jrZYeHOewFeCQBVq+uYjjsDc_A@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Emily Blanchard eblanchard@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks Fabrice! This is pure sweetness.
St. Valentine's Day comes but once a year!
Actually ...
It is celebrated at different times in the year, in various parts of the world.
And the Eastern Orthodox Church officially celebrates it twice. ;-)
-- John Vandenberg
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 09:13:14 -0800 From: Emily Blanchard eblanchard@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis Message-ID: 7550866904249160570@unknownmsgid Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Thanks Fabrice! This is pure sweetness.
St. Valentine's Day comes but once a year!
Emily Blanchard
On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:38 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Fabrice.
I would be interested in an office hour about social media strategy in general. Do you think that an office hour could be arranged?
The office hour discussion could inform future curations, as well as editor engagement and reader engagement efforts.
Thanks! Pine
On Feb 13, 2015 9:23 PM, "MZMcBride" z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Fabrice Florin wrote:
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our community-curated love collection! All your fine suggestions broadened our perspectives about love. Together, we found some really well-written, factual and nuanced articles, as well as many humorous, dramatic or beautiful images, which gave us a better understanding about love and why it matters.
Thanks for putting this together! I really like when we can highlight some of the beautiful content we have, particularly media on Commons. :-)
What do you think about this curation experiment?
It's cute, but probably as a once a year kind of thing.
MZMcBride
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 18:14:31 -0800 From: Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia List Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis Message-ID: 21C17610-7315-431D-BC32-535BA91479F1@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Hi folks,
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ve published two new stories on the Wikimedia Blog, for your enjoyment:
Love on the wikis Here are our favorite articles and images about love, collectively hand-picked by community members.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/love-on-the-wikis/
A WikiLove story How two Wikipedians fell in love while volunteering in Israel, thanks to a shared passion for knowledge.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/wikilove-story/
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our community-curated love collection! All your fine suggestions broadened our perspectives about love. Together, we found some really well-written, factual and nuanced articles, as well as many humorous, dramatic or beautiful images, which gave us a better understanding about love and why it matters.
What do you think about this curation experiment? Did you learn anything new? Should we do it again? If so, what themes should we focus on next? Please chime in the comments of the first story above, with your ideas and suggestions.
We hope that collaborations like these can help us discover new ways to share useful information, combining the wikis, our blog and social media.
Thanks again for sharing the love — and Happy Valentine's Day to all Wikimedians!
Fabrice
Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation