Agree with Joe - I happened to understand the allusion because I had read about "Remember the Alamo" some years ago, but we shouldn't assume "everyone" of our followers is familiar with the history of one particular country ;) We have a global community and readership.
To add more Monday morning quarterbacking (see what I did there? ;), the Taiwan tweet would have had enough characters left over to include an image - although perhaps we didn't have a suitably licensed one available. On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > > I like these! I'd be a little wary though about assuming our audience is > American (for example, I didn't know what the Alamo actually was until I read > Ed's post ;) ) > > These look good though, since the target for this I imagine is indeed > Americans. > > Joe > > On 2 October 2015 at 22:55, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Posted in comments on banned books: Some men are born mediocre, some men >> achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With >> Major Major it had been all three. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Catch-22 >> >> Going up at 4: >> >> Students in Taiwan are making the Chinese Wikipedia more ethnologically >> diverse. http://buff.ly/1P9MO5N >> >> For Facebook on Saturday: >> Wikipedians of the world, in what city are you seeing this post? >> >> For Ed's Texas Revolution blog post on Facebook (today): >> Everyone remembers the Alamo, but there's much more than that to the Texas >> Revolution, started this day in 1835. That's why one Wikipedia editor >> invested hundreds of hours on this article. >> >> For Ed's Texas Revolution blog post on Twitter (today): >> Everyone remembers the Alamo, but there's much more than that to the Texas >> Revolution, started this day in 1835. >> >> >> >> >> >> Jeff Elder >> Digital communications manager >> Wikimedia Foundation >> 704-650-4130 >> @jeffelder >> @wikipedia >> The Wikimedia blog >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> > > > > -- > Joe Sutherland > Communications Intern [remote] > m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu | w: JSutherland > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
