W/ Ed's tweak LGTM. Recommend posting to @wikimedia eight hours from now -- 8 p.m. PST, 5 a.m. GMT -- to catch Australia Saturday afternoon with FB targeted to Australia same time. If no objections or quibbles I'll schedule.
Jeff Elder Digital communications manager Wikimedia Foundation 704-650-4130 @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote: > That sounds more accurate to me not mention a nice plug for Wikipedia. > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Facebook post is not (strictly speaking) accurate. They're just >> cataloging them on-wiki, not preserving them. Perhaps "During World War >> I, despite being forbidden by their superiors, many Australian soldiers >> kept a personal diary small enough to hide in their top pocket. Now, over >> 1300 of them are cataloged on Wikipedia." ? >> >> --Ed >> >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Joe Sutherland < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> We just published "Gathering memories from the trenches of the Great >>> War" to the blog. URL: >>> >>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/ >>> >>> Many thanks to Michael for this post. >>> >>> Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. >>> >>> *Twitter (@wikipedia/@wikimedia):* >>> • How @statelibrarynsw is preserving Austalian war diaries with >>> Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/ >>> >>> *Facebook/Google+:* >>> • During World War I, despite being forbidden by their superiors, many >>> Australian soldiers kept a personal diary small enough to hide in their top >>> pocket. The State Library of NSW set out to collect them in 1919, and >>> they're now being preserved on Wikipedia. >>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/ >>> >>> thanks, >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Ed Erhart >> Editorial Associate >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > Michael Guss > Research Analyst > Wikimediafoundation.org > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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