And if we're digging in the history, let's also publicly shame the
culprit, User:DroneOfTheWiki:
Strainu
2015-01-09 21:59 GMT+02:00 Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com>om>:
2015-01-09 21:24 GMT+02:00 Rob Moen
<rmoen(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Currently our approach on social media is that
"Social media websites
aren't useful for spreading news and reaching out to potential users and
contributors." [1]
Actually, this seems like vandalism. See [5] for (what I believe to
be) the original content.
Why would we have dozens of social media accounts if we thought they
are useless?
Strainu
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Social_media&oldid=999236
> I challenge this though. Is it really true? Twitter
> has 254 million active monthly users, with 500 million tweets sent per day
> [2], Facebook has 1.35 billion active monthly users users. [3]
>
>
> I know there are many active Wikipedians who frequent both of these sites.
> Should we be more actively encouraging people to share?
>
>
> The history of the Social Media page indicates this was added as an ‘initial
> dump’ back in November of 2011. [4] But I wonder if it might be worth
> revisiting or refreshing this decision in light of the current world we
> live in.
>
>
> What do others think? What would the reaction be to a
sharethis.com type
> service where any site could engage ? Would this be more valuable on
> mobile than than desktop?
>
>
>
> 1:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media
>
> 2:
https://about.twitter.com/company
>
> 3:
http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info
>
> 4:
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Social_media&diff=1318877&a…
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