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 Twitter 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 Facebook 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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