Sorry, but can I understand this as a promotion link to Facebook pages (managed by community) is recommended for outreach Wikipedia, even if it isn't an "official Facebook page" managed by WMF or chapters/usergroups?
Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy Supporter, Wikimedian 2018-03-01 4:43 GMT+09:00 Asaf Bartov <[email protected]>: > Facebook is a de-facto major venue of communication for a great majority of > Internet users. Many communities, user groups, and chapters have some kind > of formal presence on Facebook -- "groups" or "pages". Directing visitors > to your wiki to *your own wiki's* presence on this other major platform, > i.e. a direct link to your group/page on Facebook, is absolutely fine. It > is *quite* different from, say, just linking to www.facebook.com or > explicitly endorsing it as a platform ("Join Facebook! It's great!") in > general. > > As you note, a number of communities have done or are doing this. > Especially for smaller communities, the impact of such link placement can > be a significant driver of traffic (i.e. readers!) to your community > group/page on Facebook, which itself is important for outreach, awareness, > and volunteer recruitment, and therefore is mission-aligned. > > Cheers, > > Asaf > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:06 AM 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
