Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook test features Wikipedia

2017-10-08 Thread David Goodman
I am somewhat concern that we will need to take even greater effort in double-check those first three sentences than we normally do in ledes. . On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Gnangarra wrote: > wonderful concept, and yes we need to do more about Newspapers on > Wikipedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook test features Wikipedia

2017-10-05 Thread Gnangarra
wonderful concept, and yes we need to do more about Newspapers on Wikipedia. Fortunately for Australia there has been a number of state libraries working on creating articles about all newspapers, so we had links in referencing to the source details in each state so Australian newspapers are at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook test features Wikipedia

2017-10-05 Thread Toby Negrin
Hi Andy -- at about 18 seconds into the video, you can see content that's identified, albeit in light gray font, as being from Wikipedia with links to the article and the license. -Toby On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 5 October 2017 at 21:20,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook test features Wikipedia

2017-10-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 5 October 2017 at 21:20, Strainu wrote: > 2017-10-05 23:14 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett : >> Sounds good - does anyone know of any screen-shots. or video, showing >> this in action? > > Check out the video in the original announcement that Toby linked

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook test features Wikipedia

2017-10-05 Thread Dan Andreescu
Couple of scenarios come to mind: If this succeeds, and is launched more widely, we might have a lot of preparation to do, and this might not be obvious to Facebook or even to us. Facebook has a huge audience and is currently extremely fertile ground for fake news. Diverting some of that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook test features Wikipedia

2017-10-05 Thread Strainu
2017-10-05 23:14 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett : > On 5 October 2017 at 20:54, Toby Negrin wrote: > >> You might have seen that Facebook announced a test of a new feature today >> that uses English Wikipedia content.[1] The new feature provides more >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook test features Wikipedia

2017-10-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 5 October 2017 at 20:54, Toby Negrin wrote: > You might have seen that Facebook announced a test of a new feature today > that uses English Wikipedia content.[1] The new feature provides more > context about the source of news articles users see in their News Feed on >

[Wikimedia-l] Facebook test features Wikipedia

2017-10-05 Thread Toby Negrin
Hi all, You might have seen that Facebook announced a test of a new feature today that uses English Wikipedia content.[1] The new feature provides more context about the source of news articles users see in their News Feed on Facebook by pulling information about publishers from Wikipedia. We