[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Hello all, an informational addition: Wikimedia Deutschland also has a Mastodon instance since December 2022, you can follow us here: https://social.wikimedia.de/@wikimediaDE We believe that organizations like Wikimedia can play an important role here and create a social space for people online.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

+1 Erik (all true and well said) -1 David (probably before pandemic) I do not see a reason why at least existing corporate social media posts would not be mirrored? Also (from the less positive glass is half empty perspective)... as it took a year of 'evaluation' for WMF to do this, it is

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Hi All: I wanted to update you that the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a Mastodon instance. You can follow us at: wikimedia.social/@wikimediafoundation. At the moment, sign-up is open for Wikimedia Foundation staff as we examine moderation and other areas. Product and technology staff will

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Hi All: Following on from my last message in this thread, we are aiming to provide a more solid update on talks about Mastodon in the next few weeks. This has been an ongoing discussion among several Foundation teams and was also a topic of conversation in our meeting with ComCom [1] in February.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

I would like to add not random data. Internet Archive, with 3 times less followers, outperforms Wikipedia on engagements, tweets per day and many other things. Basically, outperforms Wikipedia on everything, except number of followers. You can read the report here:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Sorry, but @firefox has 4 times more followers than @wikipedia. @mozilla has 3 times more than @wikimedia. 2023(e)ko api. 13(a) 17:50 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Luis Villa ):On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM Kunal Mehta wrote:Hi, On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote: >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM Kunal Mehta wrote: > Hi, > > On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote: > > It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting > > involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon > > instances to "join," There's a lot of legwork to be > >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Thanks for this move, Kunal. I have started following it. In the coming days I'll try to write some ideas that could be followed both by the Mastodon account and the Twitter account, if there is a day that the last one wants to be a good representant of the free knowledge ecosysten and the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Hi, On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote: It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon instances to "join," There's a lot of legwork to be done first, as opposed to the simpler task of signing up for, say, an

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

> As always, some volunteers will be here to help in this travel. > > Galder > -- > *From:* Erik Moeller > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 28, 2023 7:23 AM > *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List > *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledg

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

away and start to build good practices. As always, some volunteers will be here to help in this travel. Galder From: Erik Moeller Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 7:23 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge The l

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

The latest announcement from Twitter is that the site is going fully pay-to-play -- to be in recommendation feeds or even vote in polls, you will need to be a subscriber. [1] While it remains to be seen whether the site will follow through, these plans are consistent with the relentless promotion

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

ial media team to define their monthly audience, > really opaque statistics) > > Best > > Galder > -- > *From:* The Cunctator > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 4, 2023 1:33 AM > *To:* Antoine Musso > *Cc:* Wikimedia Mailing List > *Subject:* [W

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

their monthly audience, really opaque statistics) Best Galder From: The Cunctator Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 1:33 AM To: Antoine Musso Cc: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge No, I'm saying it is opaque who

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

No, I'm saying it is opaque who of the 41-member comms department at WMF edits Diff. Standard practice even for non-profit publications is for the masthead to be public. On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 11:34 AM Antoine Musso wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 9:06 PM geni > >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 9:06 PM geni > wrote: ... It has: https://diff.wikimedia.org/ ... Le 03/01/2023 à 15:32, The Cunctator a écrit : > Pretty amusing that it's incredible opaque who edits it. > Hello The Cunctator, I am

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Group accounts already there include: https://wikis.world/@WikiSignpost https://wikis.world/@wikisusdev https://wikis.world/@Wikimedia_Fr https://wikis.world/@WikiEducation https://wikis.world/@govdirectory https://wikis.world/@wikidata On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 9:34 AM The Cunctator wrote: >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

The wikipedia community doesn't need WMF permission to act on behalf of the community, imho. There are already a bunch of great wikipedians at the wikis.world instance - it would be a good place to set up some "official" accounts on behalf of the various wikipedia/wikimedia communities. On Sat,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Pretty amusing that it's incredible opaque who edits it. On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 9:06 PM geni wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 at 22:31, Erik Moeller wrote: > > These events, and Musk's capricious leadership, should be sufficient > > to make _any_ civil society organization begin to establish a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 at 22:31, Erik Moeller wrote: > These events, and Musk's capricious leadership, should be sufficient > to make _any_ civil society organization begin to establish a presence > elsewhere, It has: https://diff.wikimedia.org/ Mastodon is relivant for organisations that want or

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Erik speaks wisely here, and I find myself in concurrence with the others who have spoken up: this is an unusual but important opportunity, and I am disappointed to see that WMF not even swing at the pitch. Regards, Philippe Beaudette Tulsa, OK On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 7:51 PM David Gerard

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

I concur that the WMF should at the very least set up an account mirroring what's sent to the Twitter account. Or perhaps some well-known volunteer could set one up. (That's not me volunteering!) Dip a toe in. - d. On Sat, 31 Dec 2022 at 01:15, Erik Moeller wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 2:30 PM Erik Moeller wrote: > These are just the nonprofits > that Wikidata knows about: > > https://w.wiki/6Am4 Apologies, that was the wrong URL. Here is the correct one for that query: https://w.wiki/69V8 And yeah, completely agree re: patience - hope everyone has a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

I strongly support Erik’s and other people’s call for the Wikimedia Foundation to join Mastodon. Not only for the obvious ethical reasons, but also simply for the fact that platforms like Mastodon can only grow long-term when there’s enough activity and good content that makes engagement

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 7:46 AM SCP 2000 wrote: > FYI, I asked WMF Communication Team about any plans of using Mastodon in > future. > > Here is their response [1] "The Digital Communications team has been > researching > Mastodon and considering our potential involvement with the platform in

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

FYI, I asked WMF Communication Team about any plans of using Mastodon in future. Here is their response [1] "The Digital Communications team has been researching Mastodon and considering our potential involvement with the platform in the future. At this time, we have no plans to create an

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Hi, On 12/20/22 16:16, David Gerard wrote: Legoktm runs https://wikis.world which a small number of Wikimedians and WIkimedia groups are already on. Thanks for promoting us! To clarify, this is absolutely a group effort, with Taavi, Lucas Werkmeister, and Nemo_bis being some of the main

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

I know sammy/theresnotime was at one stage talking about spining up a proof of concept instance as a example on jow the foundation could run one for the official accounts. There is a phab task about mirroring/setting up mastadon accounts which can been seen at T323837

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Legoktm runs https://wikis.world which a small number of Wikimedians and WIkimedia groups are already on. But yes - recommended best practice for organisations is to run their own instance. Putting an instance up on a domain you own is also a clear stamp of authenticity. Twitter has stayed up so