I think this is worth doing indeed, Fabrice. On Wednesday, December 3, 2014, Fabrice Florin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Tilman! > > I really appreciate your recommendations for when to post original content > versus retweet existing posts. > > I think you made the right call in this case, and I appreciate your > retweet. :) > > So did @BeeldenGeluid, which is doing fine work to support our movement as > an external partner. > > One thought worth considering for the future: blog roundups of some of the > week’s most relevant tweets about our movement. This could be an easy way > to leverage our social media work, to give more visibility to newsworthy > events not covered on the blog. > > Onward! > > > Fabrice > > > On Dec 3, 2014, at 6:56 AM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > > Hi Fabrice, > > I think the topic of improving our video content is totally appropriate, > in particular for @wikicommons. As a general remark: If it's a project by > an outside (non-Wikimedia) organization like in this case, a retweet is > usually easier - before we heartily endorse a project and describe it as > success directly from the official SM accounts, there should be some form > of vetting beyond the organization's own statements. So it's useful if we > can retweet the lead of the WMF multimedia team regarding a multimedia > project ;) In any case, this particular organization has done projects > before that were promoted by Wikimedia NL: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#.22Wiki_Loves_Sound.22_enriches_Wikipedia_with_audio_recordings > > I have retweeted it from @wikicommons and @wikipedia. > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Fabrice Florin <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Here’s another possible candidate for sharing: >> >> Video challenge on Wikipedia stimulates re-use of audio-visual heritage: >> >> http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/blogs/research-amp-development-en/201412/video-challenge-wikipedia-way-stimulate-reuse >> >> This post describes their positive experience with a video challenge on >> the UNESCO World day for Audiovisual Heritage: over 400 videos were added >> to articles within three weeks. This is noteworthy, given that very few >> articles feature videos on Wikipedia at this time. Nicely >> done, @BeeldenGeluid ! >> >> I personally posted it here, if you’d like to retweet: >> https://twitter.com/fabriceflorin/status/539847861178212353 >> >> Let me know if you think this type of local success story is appropriate >> for our social media channels, so I can calibrate my submissions in the >> future. >> >> Be well, >> >> >> Fabrice >> >> >> _______________________________ >> >> Fabrice Florin >> Product Manager, Multimedia >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > Tilman Bayer > Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) > Wikimedia Foundation > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Product Manager, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > > > > -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org [email protected]
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