Hi Andy,
Sorry for the delay in replying here! This seems like a good idea. I'm not
sure on the demographics of our Twitter followers but we have a solid
understanding of those on Facebook, which might be useful (plus, there's
also targeting by language!).
I think your tweet's wording comes off a little forceful, though that's
easily fixed ("how about" instead of "why not" for instance).
Any other thoughts on this (from Michael especially)?
best,
Joe
On 3 August 2015 at 19:04, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote:
> HI folks,
>
>
> I have only recently joined this list. You may know me as
> "User:pigsonthewing", around the projects, and last year I took a
> turn operating @WeAreWikipedia on Twitter. I'm also a Wikimedian in
> Residence, currently with the Royal Society of Chemistry and with
> ORCID. I look forward to collaborating more closely with you all.
>
>
> I wonder whether we could use social media to promote a regular
> (Daily? Weekly?). For instance, I recently tweeted:
>
> World's oldest working engine, at @thinktankmuseum, now in
> Catalan @Wikipedia - why not your language? http://ift.tt/1fPimQi
>
> https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/627138696765177857
>
> (feel free to retweet it!) and I would prose that we choose articles
> of international signifiane, and ask our social-media aware colleagues
> around the world to promote the idea of translating them into their
> own.
>
> We'd need to balance sensitivty about choosing the source language and
> the practicality of not asking a global audience to translate from
> languages few of them speak. We could rotate between, for example,
> English, French and Spanish, or target articles which already exist in
> two or three languages.
>
>
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