During the WLE an WLM 2015 we created and published some paid campaigns inside Facebook to reach more people and bring people from Facebook to our contest's pages inside Wikipedia.
IMHO that it's a good approach, but add a direct link inside wikipedia to commercial sites/social networks are not a good idea, mainly thinking about privacy, net neutrality and compatibility with our movement mission. In that way we are redirecting people from Wikipedia to external sites.
The other problem is, don't matter if we have 5.000 or 1.000.000 of likes in a Facebook page, to reach that public we always have to pay Facebook ads to increase reach.
The Facebook is always cutting post's reach to stimulate publishers to pay more money to reach more people.
Basically we reach more people and get more views and clicks adding USD$10,00 to a Facebook post than having a page with 100.000 likes.
Including, offer an option to promote paid ads only to people that liked your page and their friends.
So, it's getting hard to grow on Facebook in a organic way, don't matter how many likes or friends do you have.
Rodrigo Padula Coordenador de Projetos Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa http://www.wikimedia.org.br 21 99326-0558
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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.
[1] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ceem14-pr
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek@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. > > > > > > > Ten e-mail został wysłany z komputera wolnego od wirusów chronionego przez > Avast. > www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email%3E; > <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > 2016-02-19 1:41 GMT+01:00 Nikola Kalchev <nikola.kalchev@gmail.com>: > > > 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:%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%91%D1%8A%D...;) > > Wikimedians of Bulgaria > > > > [1] > > > > > https://bg.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0... > > (it says "Like the page of Wikipedia in Bulgarian on Facebook > > <https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaBG%3E;. You can also follow us on > Twitter > > <https://twitter.com/WikipediaBG%3E; and Google+ > > <https://plus.google.com/103033788118241359476/posts%3E; as well as visit > our > > blog <http://blog.wikimedia.org/%3E;"). > > > > This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. > > www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email%3E; > > <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Rodrigo Padula < > > rodrigopadula@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%C... > > > > > > Best regards > > > > > > Rodrigo Padula > > > Coordenador de Projetos > > > Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa > > > http://www.wikimedia.org.br > > > +55 21 99326-0558 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek > http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >