Hello social media team, We just published a blog post about a promising training program for senior citizens in Prague:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/12/czech-senior-citizens-learn-to-edit/ As the author points out, this program helped recruit new editors in an under-represented, but productive age group. Here are some ideas for social media messages to promote this new blog post: Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia): * Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic, thanks to a new training program. (link) * Czech program trains senior citizens to edit Wikipedia: here are some of the lessons they learned. (link) Facebook/Google+ • A new training program in the Czech Republic shows senior citizens how to edit Wikipedia. Here are some of the lessons learned from classes held in Prague last year. Participants edited a wide range of articles -- and about half of them continued to edit after the program ended. (link) • A new training program in the Czech Republic shows senior citizens how to edit Wikipedia. Participants edited a wide range of articles -- and about half of them continued to edit after the program ended. Here are some lessons learned from this program, which helped recruit new editors in a productive but under-represented age group. (link) Please let us know what you think. Thanks for spreading the word about this interesting experiment! Fabrice _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
