I'm not particularly concerned either way (as I said before) but for the record the facts actually mentioned were not in question and were fairly well sourced :). I do see both sides (and those banners are indeed fairly ugly... though when you make them small no one notices them which defeats their purpose), though I certainly lean more personally towards reminding people we're not done yet and not perfect.
James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for those excellent thoughts, Johan. I think we can indeed tweet to > articles that need help. (We're figuring that out with Wikipedian on this > list, as a matter of fact.) But I don't think we can tweet the viability of > content (as in stating facts), and then send people to pages that question > those facts in the interests of encouraging editing. > > 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 Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Johan Jönsson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 2015-11-11 22:09 GMT+01:00 James Alexander <[email protected]>: >> >>> Certainly fine if we'd rather not (especially if we want to have it as a >>> more concrete policy). On a personal front I'm generally of the opinion >>> that if the article is relatively good from a reading standpoint the >>> banners are ok and may actually remind people they can help clean it up. >>> (also the mobile site strips the templates out... so I didn't see them) >>> >> >> (Hi everyone. I normally don't comment. Some of you know me from other >> lists, meetings, or, well, because we work together.) >> >> It all depends on what the purpose of our social media is, of course. My >> opinion is that one of the greatest problems of Wikipedia is the declining >> number of editors on many language versions, often attributed (among other >> things) to the fact that it's more difficult to find articles to edit, as a >> lot of the low-hanging fruit is gone. In that situation, I certainly see a >> point in every now and then linking to an article that is decent and will >> supply the information promised in the tweet but has visible problems, to >> remind people that, yes, there're certainly things left do and they're very >> welcome to take part. Only linking to good material might reinforce the >> idea that someone else is taking care of the problem. >> >> //Johan Jönsson >> -- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
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