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I wonder if we could tweet recent changes... Well, after a short delay.
I think there is probably other obvious but good advice here.
Fred
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 13:54, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
I wonder if we could tweet recent changes... Well, after a short delay.
More useful for smaller wikis. Tweeting new pages or recent changes for enwiki would probably destroy Twitter very quickly.
When I was more involved with Citizendium, I wrote a script to pipe new pages into Twitter. It's still running: http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts
On 18 August 2011 17:39, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
More useful for smaller wikis. Tweeting new pages or recent changes for enwiki would probably destroy Twitter very quickly.
When I was more involved with Citizendium, I wrote a script to pipe new pages into Twitter. It's still running: http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts
Wikimedia article feeds on twitter:
@en_wikinews @dewikinews @wikinews (Chinese)
@el_wikipedia is an article counter @wikipedia_de is the daily FA @zhwiki_newpages is all new pages @ZHWP is some form of selected article feed
Anyone know of other active ones?
The German approach here seems a pretty good one, at least to test the water - daily featured article, plus possibly other front-page content. Perhaps a feed of all new (rather than featured-that-day) "quality" content would be interesting, to give people something they might not see from the main page? A feed of enwiki's newly graded FA + GA + FP would be about ten a day, which seems quite a reasonable figure; I'm not sure what the figures are like for others, though, and this would be a bit more unpredictable than the daily feeds.
As far as new articles, well. Feeding an unfiltered list would get a lot of junk (and, perhaps more annoyingly, a lot of quickly dead links). If we look at *surviving* pages, and assume we somehow would be able to not send out the ones that are going to get deleted, then we're looking at an article every forty seconds on enwiki, five minutes on itwiki, ten minutes on jawiki, twenty minutes on huwiki...
(This might be an interesting tool for trying to stoke interest in less active projects - feeds slow enough to not be annoying, but varied enough they might catch people's attention. Hmm. I wonder what overlap there is between [language groups common on twitter] and [small WP projects needing users].)
On 18 August 2011 17:39, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
More useful for smaller wikis. Tweeting new pages or recent changes for enwiki would probably destroy Twitter very quickly.
When I was more involved with Citizendium, I wrote a script to pipe new pages into Twitter. It's still running: http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts
Wikimedia article feeds on twitter:
@en_wikinews @dewikinews @wikinews (Chinese)
@el_wikipedia is an article counter @wikipedia_de is the daily FA @zhwiki_newpages is all new pages @ZHWP is some form of selected article feed
Anyone know of other active ones?
The German approach here seems a pretty good one, at least to test the water - daily featured article, plus possibly other front-page content. Perhaps a feed of all new (rather than featured-that-day) "quality" content would be interesting, to give people something they might not see from the main page? A feed of enwiki's newly graded FA + GA + FP would be about ten a day, which seems quite a reasonable figure; I'm not sure what the figures are like for others, though, and this would be a bit more unpredictable than the daily feeds.
As far as new articles, well. Feeding an unfiltered list would get a lot of junk (and, perhaps more annoyingly, a lot of quickly dead links). If we look at *surviving* pages, and assume we somehow would be able to not send out the ones that are going to get deleted, then we're looking at an article every forty seconds on enwiki, five minutes on itwiki, ten minutes on jawiki, twenty minutes on huwiki...
(This might be an interesting tool for trying to stoke interest in less active projects - feeds slow enough to not be annoying, but varied enough they might catch people's attention. Hmm. I wonder what overlap there is between [language groups common on twitter] and [small WP projects needing users].)
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Definitely every new language either in incubator or independent and maybe regularly until there at at least 10 new articles a day or so.
Fred
Andrew Gray wrote:
On 18 August 2011 17:39, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
More useful for smaller wikis. Tweeting new pages or recent changes for enwiki would probably destroy Twitter very quickly.
When I was more involved with Citizendium, I wrote a script to pipe new pages into Twitter. It's still running: http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts
Wikimedia article feeds on twitter:
@en_wikinews @dewikinews @wikinews (Chinese)
@el_wikipedia is an article counter @wikipedia_de is the daily FA @zhwiki_newpages is all new pages @ZHWP is some form of selected article feed
Anyone know of other active ones?
It'd be great if you could start a list of these accounts on Meta-Wiki. "Microblogging accounts" or something.
MZMcBride
On 18 August 2011 22:33, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Anyone know of other active ones?
It'd be great if you could start a list of these accounts on Meta-Wiki. "Microblogging accounts" or something.
I actually stole this list from there :-) I'll have a look at tidying it a bit...
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Twitter
Of course there's the infamous @wikipedia_mk and @itwikiquote :)
2011/8/18 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
On 18 August 2011 17:39, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
More useful for smaller wikis. Tweeting new pages or recent changes for enwiki would probably destroy Twitter very quickly.
When I was more involved with Citizendium, I wrote a script to pipe new pages into Twitter. It's still running: http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts
Wikimedia article feeds on twitter:
@en_wikinews @dewikinews @wikinews (Chinese)
@el_wikipedia is an article counter @wikipedia_de is the daily FA @zhwiki_newpages is all new pages @ZHWP is some form of selected article feed
Anyone know of other active ones?
The German approach here seems a pretty good one, at least to test the water - daily featured article, plus possibly other front-page content. Perhaps a feed of all new (rather than featured-that-day) "quality" content would be interesting, to give people something they might not see from the main page? A feed of enwiki's newly graded FA + GA + FP would be about ten a day, which seems quite a reasonable figure; I'm not sure what the figures are like for others, though, and this would be a bit more unpredictable than the daily feeds.
As far as new articles, well. Feeding an unfiltered list would get a lot of junk (and, perhaps more annoyingly, a lot of quickly dead links). If we look at *surviving* pages, and assume we somehow would be able to not send out the ones that are going to get deleted, then we're looking at an article every forty seconds on enwiki, five minutes on itwiki, ten minutes on jawiki, twenty minutes on huwiki...
(This might be an interesting tool for trying to stoke interest in less active projects - feeds slow enough to not be annoying, but varied enough they might catch people's attention. Hmm. I wonder what overlap there is between [language groups common on twitter] and [small WP projects needing users].)
--
- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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@itwikiquote is an experiment by WMI, it's a bot that writes the Quote of the day via Twitter. It work fairly well.
Aubrey
2011/8/19 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org:
Of course there's the infamous @wikipedia_mk and @itwikiquote :)
2011/8/18 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
On 18 August 2011 17:39, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
More useful for smaller wikis. Tweeting new pages or recent changes for enwiki would probably destroy Twitter very quickly.
When I was more involved with Citizendium, I wrote a script to pipe new pages into Twitter. It's still running: http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts
Wikimedia article feeds on twitter:
@en_wikinews @dewikinews @wikinews (Chinese)
@el_wikipedia is an article counter @wikipedia_de is the daily FA @zhwiki_newpages is all new pages @ZHWP is some form of selected article feed
Anyone know of other active ones?
The German approach here seems a pretty good one, at least to test the water - daily featured article, plus possibly other front-page content. Perhaps a feed of all new (rather than featured-that-day) "quality" content would be interesting, to give people something they might not see from the main page? A feed of enwiki's newly graded FA + GA + FP would be about ten a day, which seems quite a reasonable figure; I'm not sure what the figures are like for others, though, and this would be a bit more unpredictable than the daily feeds.
As far as new articles, well. Feeding an unfiltered list would get a lot of junk (and, perhaps more annoyingly, a lot of quickly dead links). If we look at *surviving* pages, and assume we somehow would be able to not send out the ones that are going to get deleted, then we're looking at an article every forty seconds on enwiki, five minutes on itwiki, ten minutes on jawiki, twenty minutes on huwiki...
(This might be an interesting tool for trying to stoke interest in less active projects - feeds slow enough to not be annoying, but varied enough they might catch people's attention. Hmm. I wonder what overlap there is between [language groups common on twitter] and [small WP projects needing users].)
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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@itwikiquote is an experiment by WMI, it's a bot that writes the Quote of the day via Twitter. It work fairly well.
There are supposedly some more of them but we have some problems with templates in other languages. https://twitter.com/#!/WikimediaItalia/wikiquote/members
Nemo
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 13:54, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
I wonder if we could tweet recent changes... Well, after a short delay.
More useful for smaller wikis. Tweeting new pages or recent changes for enwiki would probably destroy Twitter very quickly.
When I was more involved with Citizendium, I wrote a script to pipe new pages into Twitter. It's still running: http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts
-- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/
What could we put on Twitter that would be interesting and appropriate? How about new good or featured articles? Requests for deletion?
Fred
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