If we want to prioritize languages by audience size, I'd say at least Spanish. Here's the current list of most popular language interfaces of our followers.
[image: Inline image 1] On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We have translations for this post in Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, > Macedonian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, and Ukrainian (plus Brazilian > Portuguese is missing only one caption). Would it be worthwhile to post > links on Facebook and geotarget, using the second sentence as a tagline? > I'm not sure how many fans we have in each language. > > --Ed > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks all. >>> >>> I am guessing that most our social followers support Wikimedia content >>> and the Wikimedia platform. So: >>> >>> 1. Would a petition to FB from thousands of followers make a difference? >>> >> Maybe, but that's a campaign we'd want to design with allied >> organizations for maximum impact, which requires coordination and >> resourcing not currently in the Annual Plan. So, per James, that's a >> 12-18mo goal. >> >>> 2. I am thinking that well designed, short social posts that excite our >>> followers into clicking links to content on our platform might be >>> sufficient for our goals. Thoughts? This ties in with Luis' comment about >>> closed web versus open web; FB gains from closed web, and we gain from open >>> web, so strategically I think that we would want to encourage our followers >>> to venture out to the open web and onto our platform. >>> >> We should always strive for well designed, short social posts that excite >> our followers! Especially in a way that supports the open web. But >> sub-optimally rendered images don't quite get us there (and right now, >> there's no current roadmap in the product teams for better social platform >> rendering/performance for Commons images). Lessons learned from highly >> visual accounts (NASA, US Dept. of Interior) suggest any intermediation of >> the image is an immediate loss factor. I don't want to speak for Jeff, >> whose remit this all is, but between total closed-web capitulation and >> idealism, I settle into the slightly less exciting groove of pragmatism on >> what we can do with what we have. >> >>> Pine >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Katherine Maher >> Chief Communications Officer >> Wikimedia Foundation >> 149 New Montgomery Street >> San Francisco, CA 94105 >> >> +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 >> +1 (415) 712 4873 >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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]
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