The Macedonian community has also had success attracting attention to their
social media channels via Facebook etc. links on sitenotice for a while. I
believe they reached a staggering number of likes (~35000 was it?), from
next to nothing. Those social media channels seem to have been used to
considerable effect in drawing attention and attracting contributors to
events like WLM.
This was discussed at the Wikimedia Central and Eastern European Meeting
2014. Notes from that session are still on Etherpad[1].
CCing Bojan for potential additional details.
A.
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Nikola - but does it bring any added value to
Wikipedia? Does number of
active editors in Bulgarian Wikipedia increased because of it? Can you see
it in Wikipedia statics? IMHO it is the only thing which might legitimate
such an action.
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2016-02-19 1:41 GMT+01:00 Nikola Kalchev <nikola.kalchev(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hello Rodrigo,
on Bulgarian Wikipedia we put a text asking readers to like our Facebook
page, our Twitter and Google+ accounts, as well to visit our blog [1].
The
Facebook likes went up from 1923 to 5381 in a
month, 126 people followed
us
on Twitter (virtually nobody did it before that),
123 people followed us
on
Google+ and the reader numbers on our blog went
significantly up (I don't
have the data right now). Nobody in the community objected to this and we
would probably do it again some day. We decided to remove it after a
month,
because we saw that the number of new likes
declined over time.
Best regards,
Nikola (User:Лорд Бъмбъри
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Лорд_Бъмбъри>)
Wikimedians of Bulgaria
[1]
https://bg.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F%D…
(it says "Like the page of Wikipedia in
Bulgarian on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaBG>. You can also follow us on
Twitter
<https://twitter.com/WikipediaBG> and
Google+
<https://plus.google.com/103033788118241359476/posts> as well as visit
our
blog <http://blog.wikimedia.org/>").
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Rodrigo Padula <
rodrigopadula(a)wikimedia.org.br> wrote:
> Hello fellows!
>
> Since the end of the last year some contributors from pt.wikipedia are
> discussing regarding the idea of including the promotion of our
Facebook
Page on
site Notice [1]
That proposal was started by Teles, a Brazilian steward. He received a
lot
of local support.
The general idea is to bring more people from Facebook to access
Wikipedia
through our Facebook page, but what we are doing
is redirecting users
from
pt.wikipedia to Facebook and including a free
Facebook ads on
pt.wikipedia.
>
> I would like to know if it is ok for the Wikimedia Movement and if this
> kind of Facebook promotional campaign was proposed and published in
other
wikipedias/wikimedia projects.
[1]
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/propostas/Inserir_p%…
Best regards
Rodrigo Padula
Coordenador de Projetos
Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa
http://www.wikimedia.org.br
+55 21 99326-0558
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