+1
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 07:13, Peter Southwood
wrote:
> A Wikipedia account *should* be under the control of Wikipedians,
> following the editorial policy for Wikipedia, but they could let WMF do the
> technical work if such exists. WMF can and should run Wikimedia accounts.
> WMF running a
A Wikipedia account should be under the control of Wikipedians, following the
editorial policy for Wikipedia, but they could let WMF do the technical work if
such exists. WMF can and should run Wikimedia accounts. WMF running a
Wikipedia account could be misrepresentation.
Cheers,
Peter
The reasonable account to compared the official @wikipedia account to is
Depths of Wikipedia, on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. On Twitter it was
715K followers has about 10-20 posts a day, and monster engagement.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 7:47 PM Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The obvious
Dear all,
The obvious question surely is: Why not let volunteers (co-)run the
Wikipedia Twitter account?
A number of Wikipedia language versions (French, Catalan, Portuguese,
Basque, Waray, etc.) seem to have volunteer-managed Twitter accounts that
are doing fine. If volunteers are good enough
Hi/Bona nit,
This last tweet from @Wikipedia is a good example of what some of us have been
mentioning in this list during the past days:
https://twitter.com/wikipedia/status/1615756186640334848?s=46=7wB7VI4gwISyFjo-X2jZvQ
Despite the fact that many Wikipedias have already had this new skin
Hello,
In September, we announced [1] our second call for proposals to the
Wikimedia Research Fund [2]. Our submission deadline was December 16. We
are now in the exciting phase of reviewing submissions and making
recommendations for which proposals to advance to Stage II [3] and we
welcome your
