On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Ed Erhart <eerhart(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This sums it up pretty well, for those on the list
without the benefit of
context. Sigh. :-)
Michael, Andrew, and I also discussed setting up a page where Wikipedians of
all languages could come and propose social posts for us that link to
articles they've written. I figured that we could adopt the DYK/TIL format
for that.
As in indicated in the previous email, we set up such a page back in
2013 and ran it for a while, see e.g.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar/2014/01
Back then we drafted and reviewed in parallel on that Meta page and on
this mailing list, which involved a significant amount of overhead.
Also, because few people besides Matthew and myself were checking
their Meta watchlist often enough, this mailing list proved to be a
much more reliable venue for people to post SM ideas for review and
get a timely response. That's why the Meta page became inactive, in
contrast to this mailing list. Having said that, it might be worth
another try, assuming you have a critical mass of SM team members who
are living the wiki lifestyle to a sufficient degree in order to
ensure that submissions there get noticed and reviewed like they do
here ;)
--Ed
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:33 PM, James Alexander <jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Heh, fair point there was a lot of context missing there ;)
For the record I'm all in favor, and I was doing a cheap joke for the
entertainment of those who knew the history :)
The worst problems are usually something that we will have on our radar,
these articles are not hard to quickly review, and the community IS actually
very good at reviewing these. When there are DYKs we're not interested in
sharing there is no issue skipping them, there are 24 a day :) it's not like
we're going to run out.
James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Joe Sutherland
<jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Okay, fair point. In fairness I think something like that's unlikely to
happen in the future :P
(For context for those unaware, he's talking about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltarpedia ... think this may have been
pre-Katherine :) )
On 6 August 2015 at 18:26, James Alexander <jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Joe Sutherland
<jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> It's gotten a lot better in fairness. Checking the article isn't awful
> before we publish it on social is also pretty trivial, thankfully.
>
> Joe
Yes.... Yes it has....
BUT DYK that Gibraltar was ceded to Britain "in perpetuity" under the
Treaty of Utrecht in 1713?
/Ducks/
James Alexander
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Wikimedia Foundation
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