My personal preference is to NOT link to Facebook. I
think they use the
energy of people enough already.
However, I also think it is up to local communities to decide what works
for them best, there is no "one size fits all" here, IMHO
Sure, it's
good to let them decide, and it's also good to give feed back
of what see as possible issue or not especially when asked for such an
opinion. :)
best,
DJ "pundit"
On Feb 28, 2018 20:06, "Jimmy Wales" <jimmywales(a)wikia-inc.com> wrote:
Speaking only for myself, not as a member of the board, I don't know of
any legal or other reason why this should not be done. I think we
should be very careful about links or appearance of endorsement
especially on article pages, but outreach to people in the world should
take place wherever we find a willing and useful audience.
On 2/28/18 6:29 AM, Minata Hatsune wrote:
I know it based on local consensus, but what I
mean here is: those
consensus valid for WMF Term of Use and others policies or not? Because it
same with Wikipedia have linked with 3rd party, which is a commerical
website.
Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy
Vietnamese Wikimedian
2018-02-28 18:52 GMT+09:00 James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>om>:
> IMO this is based on local community consensus. It is not a global
policy.
> James
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Minata Hatsune <minatahatsune(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I have a question: is it legal and valid for Wikipedia
communities
>> put promotion links to their Facebook
pages on public space as Main Page
> or
>> Sitenotice?
>>
>> I see many of Wikimedia projects doing this, as Indonesia Wikipedia,
> Arabic
>> Wikipedia, etc... Their Facebooks page also have blue checkmark of
> Facebook
>> as verified.
>>
>> All what I concern is: Facebook is a commerical website, we put a link
as
"official" to them, will it same with
Wikipedia biased for Facebook and
violated the NPOV policy? And in finally: is it OK if other projects can
do
that? Vietnamese Wikipedia also have a discussion
about sitenotice
promotion to Facebook at <
https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Th%E1%BA%A3o_lu%E1%
BA%ADn/Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_b%C3%A1_trang_Facebook_%22Wikipedia_
ti%E1%BA%BFng_Vi%E1%BB%87t%22
> . If this is OK, I think we have no reason to reject it.
Thank you!
Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy
Vietnamese Wikimedian
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