Sounds like a good idea to me. The Aaron Swartz blog post was just cited by someone over the weekend, and made for an interesting read to me, since I had not seen it before.
Done in moderation, links to good evergreens like this could be a fine addition to our more current posts. -f > On Dec 8, 2014, at 2:26 AM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: > > So after the "recycling" of the 2013 Aaron Swartz blog post went well > last month, Michael and I were thinking we should post SM for old > posts from the Wikimedia blog more often. > > Here are some candidates that already continue to receive a > non-trivial baseline of pageviews: > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/ > (perhaps rather after the fundraiser, or with a message explaining the > difference between and fundraising banners) > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/02/seven-years-after-nature-pilot-study-compares-wikipedia-favorably-to-other-encyclopedias-in-three-languages/ > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/17/carry-the-entirety-of-wikipedia-in-your-pocket-with-kiwix-for-android/ > (this one is even more popular and also more general - not just > Android - : > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/download-the-text-of-the-entire-english-wikipedia/ > Unfortunately it's outdated and we haven't yet gotten Emanuel to write > a new one.) > > And two which I think are suitable based on their topic: > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/23/do-you-know-whats-around-you-let-wikipedia-tell-you/ > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/04/sixty-ways-to-help-new-editors/ > > Other ideas, or thoughts about the above? > -- > Tilman Bayer > Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) > Wikimedia Foundation > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [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)
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