[Foundation-l] Genuine, Generous, and Grateful

[Andrea Zanni]

@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 at effeietsanders.org>:
> Of course there's the infamous @wikipedia_mk and @itwikiquote :)
>
> 2011/8/18 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>
>
>> 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
>>
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