[Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook

[Jay Walsh]

It's something that I think they'll be interested in sharing, although right now I imagine they're pretty strapped resource-wise implementing the features, but we should certainly ask if they can stay open-minded to that idea.

jay

On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> Hoi,
> Will we learn the traffic data from Facebook? Will we be able to do the kind
> of data analysis that we do on our own traffic data ?
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
> 
> On 19 April 2010 21:50, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <kwadhwa at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I just wanted to let you know about new features Facebook is planning on
>> launching later today that involve articles from Wikipedia. Facebook is
>> going to begin integrating Wikipedia’s free knowledge into a new part of
>> the Facebook.com site experience to help users be more connected and
>> informed about the topics and activities that interest them. They're
>> calling this service Facebook Community Pages, portal pages which will
>> be owned and managed by the Facebook community.
>> 
>> Wikipedia articles on Facebook will further increase the reach of free
>> knowledge on the internet.  Facebook has hundreds of millions of users,
>> and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US.
>> Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also
>> be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors.
>> Facebook will follow the free licenses (CC-BY-SA) and help us find more
>> ways people can share knowledge. Furthermore, we will be looking at
>> other ways that both parties can cooperate in the future.
>> 
>> Initially it looks like this service will be focussed on English
>> Wikipedia, but considering Facebook's multi-lingual community it seems
>> likely that other languages will be brought in quickly. Because Facebook
>> members build the Community Pages, they will be able to suggest or add
>> more Wikipedia articles (as well as other relevant content from the
>> web).  They will also have a built-in feedback system in case the
>> article provided is not correct or has any display problems.
>> 
>> It's going to be a learning situation for both us and them so we'll see
>> how this goes.
>> 
>> --Kul
>> 
>> --
>> Kul Takanao Wadhwa
>> Head of Business Development
>> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>> kul at wikimedia.org
>> (415) 839-6885 ext. 603
>> 
>> 
>> 
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