[Foundation-l] Genuine, Generous, and Grateful

[Fred Bauder]

> On 18 August 2011 17:39, Tom Morris <tom at 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 at 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