My personal preference is to NOT link to Facebook. I think they use the energy of people enough already.
However, I also think it is up to local communities to decide what works for them best, there is no "one size fits all" here, IMHO best, DJ "pundit" On Feb 28, 2018 20:06, "Jimmy Wales" <[email protected]> wrote: Speaking only for myself, not as a member of the board, I don't know of any legal or other reason why this should not be done. I think we should be very careful about links or appearance of endorsement especially on article pages, but outreach to people in the world should take place wherever we find a willing and useful audience. On 2/28/18 6:29 AM, Minata Hatsune wrote: > I know it based on local consensus, but what I mean here is: those > consensus valid for WMF Term of Use and others policies or not? Because it > same with Wikipedia have linked with 3rd party, which is a commerical > website. > > Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy > Vietnamese Wikimedian > > 2018-02-28 18:52 GMT+09:00 James Heilman <[email protected]>: > >> IMO this is based on local community consensus. It is not a global policy. >> >> James >> >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Minata Hatsune <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I have a question: is it legal and valid for Wikipedia communities >>> put promotion links to their Facebook pages on public space as Main Page >> or >>> Sitenotice? >>> >>> I see many of Wikimedia projects doing this, as Indonesia Wikipedia, >> Arabic >>> Wikipedia, etc... Their Facebooks page also have blue checkmark of >> Facebook >>> as verified. >>> >>> All what I concern is: Facebook is a commerical website, we put a link as >>> "official" to them, will it same with Wikipedia biased for Facebook and >>> violated the NPOV policy? And in finally: is it OK if other projects can >> do >>> that? Vietnamese Wikipedia also have a discussion about sitenotice >>> promotion to Facebook at < >>> https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Th%E1%BA%A3o_lu%E1% >>> BA%ADn/Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_b%C3%A1_trang_Facebook_%22Wikipedia_ >>> ti%E1%BA%BFng_Vi%E1%BB%87t%22 >>>> . If this is OK, I think we have no reason to reject it. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy >>> Vietnamese Wikimedian >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>> wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> New messages to: [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> James Heilman >> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
