Hi catching up on this! This is truly interesting, Joe! Thank you for proposing this and thank you James for your edits.
I made some changes for F/G to add some explanation and kept Twitter copy: @wikipedia: https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/648947245199552512 (NOTE: you already earned yourselves a RT from ICARDA) Fb: https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10153563937553346 G+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/100123345029543043288/+Wikipedia/posts/58pg6A6jpvc On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:39 AM, James Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > That is indeed such a cool project, when I first heard about it I thought > it would be one of those 1 time "oh cool" things I learn... It seems to > keep coming up though... > > Some social would be nice but I assume you were thinking of linking to the > WP article? (The quote you gave was with the reuters link but now that I > see it's a quote from the article maybe you just copied with the > reference...) > > Perhaps: > > DYK: In 2015 the Syrian Civil War caused the first withdrawal from the > Svalbard Seed Vault to restock @ICARDA_CGIAR <link> > > i had to use "caused" to get the twitter length right and still keep DYK > which I really like... If you don't use that though could switch back to > promoted. > > @SvalbardVault exists on Twitter but can't tell if official so not sure > if we should link (also never actually tweeted) > > Sent from my iPhone > > > James Alexander > Legal and Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation > +1 415-839-6885 x6716 > > > On Sep 23, 2015, at 07:44, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey all, > > Perhaps some filler social of this article which is (at least tenuous) in > the news right now: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault > > "The Syrian Civil War prompted the first withdrawal in 2015 to restock the > International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas." > http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/21/us-mideast-crisis-seeds-idUKKCN0RL1KA20150921 > > Plus it's a supercool article on a supercool project. :) > > Joe > > -- > *Joe Sutherland* > Communications Intern [remote] > m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: > JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org [email protected]
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