Hi all,

I'm Anusha, VP of Communications at the Foundation. We share everyone’s
concerns on the direction of Twitter and very much agree that values are a
big part of the way we communicate and show up in the world. Over the last
several weeks, we’ve been watching this issue closely. There is a lot to
look at—not just the communications outreach and technical bit of a
presence on Mastodon, but also the legal, social, and safety factors like
the data retention policy for an existing instance, the potential to access
the private messages of accounts, or using Foundation resources for the
tech and social media management of an account, and how this connects to
our vision [1].

We want to be thoughtful and thorough in how we approach these questions
and that takes time. We’re exploring with Foundation teams and we also have
an upcoming meeting with the Communications Committee [2] - this is on the
agenda. That meeting will help provide some valuable input and insights
from community members in addition to what we’ve heard here.

I appreciate the concerns and perspectives shared on this thread and
elsewhere. We’ll update folks on the social media talk page [3] and welcome
more thoughts there. Thank you.

Anusha

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/vision/

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_committee

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Social_media


On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 12:27 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I agree that Wikipedia handles should join Mastodon. But, again, opening a
> social media channel needs a strategy. Currently, there's no strategy for
> the Twitter account, so opening an account in Mastodon without strategy
> would be a bad decision.
>
> (Still waiting the social media team to define their monthly audience,
> really opaque statistics)
>
> Best
>
> Galder
> ------------------------------
> *From:* The Cunctator <cuncta...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 4, 2023 1:33 AM
> *To:* Antoine Musso <has...@free.fr>
> *Cc:* Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge
>
> No, I'm saying it is opaque who of the 41-member comms department at WMF
> edits Diff. Standard practice even for non-profit publications is for the
> masthead to be public.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 11:34 AM Antoine Musso <has...@free.fr> wrote:
>
>
> > On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 9:06 PM geni <geni...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:geni...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> ...
> >     It has:
> >
> >     https://diff.wikimedia.org/ <https://diff.wikimedia.org/>
> > ...
> Le 03/01/2023 à 15:32, The Cunctator a écrit :
>  > Pretty amusing that it's incredible opaque who edits it.
>  >
>
> Hello The Cunctator,
>
> I am assuming your reply was asking who can edit Diff. I don't think
> posts are editable in the sense of a Wiki.  Proposing a content on Diff
> is open to anyone as long as it fit in its scope. There are more
> informations at:
>
> * https://diff.wikimedia.org/about/
> * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Diff_(blog)
>
> The blog is managed by the WMF Movement Communications team:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Movement_Communications
> who will assist in polishing up your draft blog post before it is
> published.
>
> cheers,
>
> --
> Antoine "hashar" Musso
> Wikimedia Release Engineering
>
>
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