Rob, thank you for this post and the discussion it has started, and thank you also for detecting (indirectly) a relative subtle piece of vandalism in our mw:Social_media page.
There are many mixed topics here, and solving each requires many more mixed tasks. I have picked the one that our Engineering Community team is directly responsible for, and I have created an epic task for it:
mediawiki.org news distributed to social media and Wikimedia tech blog https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86437
I went into some details and probably made some assumptions; everything is editable. :)
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Rob Moen rmoen@wikimedia.org wrote:
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] 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:
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