Hi/Bona nit,
This last tweet from @Wikipedia is a good example of what some of us have been
mentioning in this list during the past days:
https://twitter.com/wikipedia/status/1615756186640334848?s=46&t=7wB7VI4gwISyFjo-X2jZvQ
Despite the fact that many Wikipedias have already had this new skin deployed
since months ago as voluntary testers, not a single mention on their huge
contribution was explained on Twitter (neither back then nor today…). We need
to go to the 8th tweet of today's publication to read something like "The new
features, which start rolling out on English Wikipedia today, were built in
collaboration with Wikipedia volunteers worldwide."
If this is the situation in which the main account is monopolized only to the
English version and its news/articles, why not specifying it as "English
Wikipedia" in the profile and in the main link?
Days pass by and we keep sharing to this list proofs, data and justified
arguments (even collagues offering themselves and willing to trace a joint
planning!), but still not a word or single thought from the Comms department.
Disappointing, I am sad to say.
Kind regards/Salutacions
Xavier Dengra
El ds, 14 gen., 2023 a 09:52, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder...@hotmail.com>
va escriure:
> Egun on Boodarwun/Gnangarra,
> You are righth in one thing: it is very difficult to prove a point only from
> one puntual statistic. That's why I have been tracking statistics for a long
> time, because patterns are here the most important thing. Neverthless, there
> is only one way to know if the point me and some other users in this thread
> are rising is valid: experimenting. @Wikipedia should try something: tweeting
> 6-7 times a day, with varied topics, "on this day" like tweets, varying
> timezones and even curiosities about how Wikipedia works
> (https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1614045362985082881 2 million
> impressions in 9 hours). Then, after -let's say- one month, if the results
> (engagement, followers, retention) are better, it would be quite obvious that
> there's a point changing the social media strategy. If not, if engagement is
> the same, no obvious uprise in followers or RTs is visible, the current
> strategy could be validated.
>
> Me, personally, I'm ready to help the Communications Team with this task,
> proposing intercultural items that could be tweeted and promoted. If they
> want help, they know where to go for it. Again, I think that following the
> same pattern is a bad communication strategy (as we can see by our own eyes)
> and trying something new could be better. Is up to the communications team to
> aknowledge this and give a try.
>
> Sincerely,
> Galder
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2023 6:00 AM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter
>
> Kaya Galder
>
> The assumption that despite there being a wider audience the interests of
> those audience members is exactly the same, if that was true why have
> multiple channels. What I am saying is that in different communities that
> doesnt and will never hold true. Using statistics to compare the two is the
> issue and then complaining about different audience responses to the same
> event being caused by those posting to the channel. Its not the channel
> operators, it's the underlying expectation that all audiences are the same
> and react exactly the same way every time even as the audience is increasing
> by many orders of magnitude.
>
> Boodarwun
>
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 at 02:06, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
> <galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> @Gnangarra: I would doubt on the idea that Pelé is not relevant to the
>> English audience, as it was the most visited article by far that day
>> (https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=2022-12-29&excludes=),
>> and the second most visited next day, just after the less known Andrew
>> Tate. Also, the account is not ENGLISH Wikipedia. Is called Wikipedia, so it
>> should take into account, even if it tweets only about English Wikipedia (as
>> pointed by @Xavier Dengra) a global audience. Because, again, the goal is
>> "By 2030, Wikimedia is to become the central infrastructure for Free
>> Knowledge on the Internet.". Not only for US centered people, but by a
>> global audience. Even with that in mind, Pelé was the most visited article
>> in English Wikipedia.
>>
>> @Yaroslav: Basque Wikipedia is not one of the few accounts tweeting about
>> Pelé, and in perspective, there are more Basque tweeting accounts per
>> speaker, than there are for other larger languages. We are not competing
>> with major news outlets; we are competing to be "the central infrastructure
>> for Free Knowledge on the Internet". Wikipedia is doing well on that: nearly
>> 2,5 million visits in two days for the article about Pelé only in English. I
>> think that there may be very few web services having 2,5 million visits for
>> a page about Pelé in two days, if there's any. Also, next day the most
>> visited article was about Andrew Tate. So, you are right: we are not a news
>> outlet, but we are visited according to the news. Any strategy that doesn't
>> have this in mind, will fail.
>>
>> You also ask how many tweets a day would be enough. I don't have an answer
>> for this. I would like the communications team to come with one, but they
>> don't seem either to have one. I don't think that tweeting every hour is
>> better, but I'll explain why one tweet per day is a bad strategy, based only
>> in what we know about the Twitter algorithm:
>>
>> - The Twitter algorithm tends to show a tweet to followers and others more
>> often if it gets more engagements (RTs, likes, comments...). So, maximizing
>> engagements seems a something positive if we want to reach to new people.
>> - It also shows an account more often if the user interacts with it. If
>> someone likes, RTs or comments a tweet, it seems that this account will be
>> shown again soon. That's why you see more often tweets from your friends
>> than others. And that's why ideological bubbles are created.
>> - If people are engaged with a tweet, it will be shown more regularly after
>> a tweet by other people you follow once you scroll down. This is why if you
>> open a tweet by a far-right politician, you will see below other tweets by
>> far-right sided politicians and the opposite for left, libertarian, green or
>> vegans. It shows you similar content, based on people's interaction.
>>
>> So, tweeting more doesn't maximize engagement (if you tweet every minute,
>> you will lose it), but tweeting less minimizes engagement. If you only tweet
>> once a day, and you don't get too much attention, your next tweet will be
>> less important for the algorithm, and so on. The only valid strategy is one
>> that gets people engaged to your tweet, so you get more impressions, and
>> this drives more interactions, and this drives more followers. Because, at
>> the end of the day, we want to be "the central infrastructure for Free
>> Knowledge on the Internet".
>>
>> I don't know how much is the ideal thing. In Basque Wikipedia our strategy
>> is to publish 5-6 tweets every day, and then also interact with people
>> talking about Wikipedia or speaking about articles they have created (like
>> @viquipedia does, with great success). Our topics from the 5-6 daily tweets
>> now (2023) are like this: every morning (yes, most of our followers live in
>> the same time-zone) a biography of someone who was born/died on this day;
>> then, something that happened 100 years ago. At noon, an artwork. If the
>> artwork is depicting something interesting, a second tweet linked to that
>> explaining the artwork itself. Two tweets in the afternoon: the first one,
>> optional, about something related to Wikipedia itself (Statistics, projects,
>> some user who has created something cool...) and then science/technology in
>> a broad sense. At evening, we like to tweet something related to current
>> events, if this is interesting. We have a shared doc with the daily tweets
>> and we program them some days in advance. Also, we use MOA to have them
>> copied to Mastodon.
>>
>> I don't know, again, if this is the optimal. I know that is better than
>> one-per-day, because data is obviously better. Engagements, followers and
>> interactions are better this way, as I have proved above.
>>
>> Best,
>> Galder
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> From: F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
>> <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2023 3:37 PM
>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Cc: F. Xavier Dengra i Grau <xavier.den...@protonmail.com>
>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter
>>
>> Hi/Bon dia
>>
>> Yaroslav: Also, you say one tweet per day is too little, how may do you
>> think is normal? If I personally see an account which tweets more than say
>> 10 per day (not counting threads) I start thinking may be it is a spam
>> generator.
>>
>> Since 4 years ago we updated the social media methodology for the Catalan
>> Wikipedia Twitter account (approx 4.5M native speakers, 10M audience), we
>> boosted from 15.3K to 45.4K speakers, now being the 4th most followed
>> language of Wikipedia.
>>
>> Our method in a nutshell: we have up to 23 knowledge themes that we oblige
>> ourselves to post at least once every week. The number of our daily tweets
>> vary from 6 to 10 only in content (i.e., articles). This depends on, ofc,
>> whether it's a working day vs a weekend or other time aspects (peak hours).
>> Plus the interactions (RT+kudos) with our wikipedians that share their new
>> articles tagging us, which has been a massive way to appreciate their task
>> and to visibilize to others the task of being a volunteer in Wikipedia. In
>> fact, the latter has been especially critical to bring us huge additional
>> views and to renew a few of our new, most active editing community
>> (especially young users!).
>>
>> If our account, managed by volunteers, can conduct this organized work for a
>> small-medium size language, why should we accept that a whole staffed team
>> from the WMF, firstly, rejects to provide engagement data on our common,
>> biggest handle? And secondly, why should we give up on them preparing a
>> strategy to improve its scope and objectives?
>>
>> Regarding the last question, I'd like to add a last thought: never ever in
>> the 4 years that I've been upfront in the handles in my language, the
>> @Wikipedia account has given a simple, courtesy RT of any knowledge content
>> (articles) from the Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Basque, Catalan, Galician,
>> French, Suda or Portuguese (etc.) existing handles. That should be a key
>> aspect in our debate.
>>
>> Because if @Wikipedia is mostly used as the “central account” for the
>> project, then it should also be very careful 1) to not always post in
>> English and give some room to interact with the other language handles, 2)
>> to stop centering their tweets on English-speaking culture, and 3) to post
>> without clear range of topics to stay balanced. Oppositely, if it is decided
>> that @Wikipedia is only the English-language handle, then it may change its
>> profile name to "English Wikipedia" and not continue as the reference
>> speaker either for the WMF nor for significant news or events.
>>
>> Best/Salutacions,
>>
>> Xavier Dengra
>> ------- Original Message -------
>> On divendres, 13 de gener 2023 a les 14:56, Yaroslav Blanter
>> <ymb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Galder,
>>>
>>> on the other hand.. Basque Wikipedia is one of very few accounts twitting
>>> on the Pele death in Basque, whereas a lot was twitted in English. I do not
>>> think English Wikipedia twitter can compete with major news outlets, they
>>> operate on a completely different scale.The low-hanging fruit would be
>>> twitting DYKs, FAs, GAs, or may be some other randomly picked stuff. Also,
>>> you say one tweet per day is too little, how may do you think is normal? If
>>> I personally see an account which tweets more than say 10 per day (not
>>> counting threads) I start thinking may be it is a spam generator.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Yaroslav
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 2:26 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>>> <galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some months have gone since I started this topic in this list, and still,
>>>> we can't know how much engagement we have at Wikipedia, because data is
>>>> not available. Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk, things are changing,
>>>> there are more accounts in Mastodon daily, but still Twitter matters. I
>>>> have been looking at the Twitter activity in the last days for @Wikipedia
>>>> and I'm still very worried about the (lack of) strategy followed here. A
>>>> full team, with staff members, which only produces one tweet per day, a
>>>> lonely message in the vastness of the ocean, and gets really poor
>>>> engagement numbers.
>>>>
>>>> A couple of weeks ago Pelé, one of the greatest football players of all
>>>> time, died. (English) Wikipedia Twitter account needed 7 days to tweet
>>>> about it, even if the article was changed in a few minutes after the death
>>>> (https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/1611363972174778368). The tweet had
>>>> 13.729 impressions (now we can know the number of impressions), 14 RTs and
>>>> 129 likes. Wikipedia account has nearly 644.000 followers. If we divide
>>>> these two numbers, we get a rate of 2,13% of impressions per follower.
>>>>
>>>> The same day Pelé died, Basque Wikipedia made a tweet. Not a week after,
>>>> just when it was news
>>>> (https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1608541274491211776). The tweet
>>>> had 964 impressions, 3 RTs and 2 likes. Basque Wikipedia account has 7,956
>>>> followers. This is a rate of 12,11% of impressions per follower. x5.68
>>>> times larger, relatively than (English) Wikipedia Twitter account.
>>>>
>>>> (English) Wikipedia Twitter account has nearly 81 times more followers
>>>> than the Basque one. English Wikipedia is more visible, because it has a
>>>> (now golden) verified account symbol, so tweets are more often promoted.
>>>> English has 1.500 million speakers around the world. Basque has fewer than
>>>> one million. English Wikipedia should have around 1.000 more followers
>>>> than Basque Wikipedia. English Wikipedia article about Pelé had 2,5
>>>> million pageviews in the two days after his death. Basque had 250
>>>> pageviews. This is 10.000 times more pageviews.
>>>>
>>>> @Wikipedia has 644.000 followers, and @euwikipedia has nearly 8.000.
>>>> Audience of English Wikipedia is 10.000 times larger for the same event.
>>>> Why Wikipedia is not 10.000 times larger? Why doesn't Wikipedia account
>>>> have 80 million followers? YouTube's Twitter account has 78 million
>>>> followers. "By 2030, Wikimedia is to become the central infrastructure for
>>>> Free Knowledge on the Internet.". How could we if Youtube's account has
>>>> 100x more followers than we have? How can think that we are in a good
>>>> shape if our tweets are only seen by less than 2% of our followers?
>>>>
>>>> I hope that 2023 comes with a change. A change to open these accounts,
>>>> have a fresh way of thinking on social media ,and building engagement,
>>>> both with momentum, not losing opportunities, and promoting good content.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely
>>>>
>>>> Galder
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder...@hotmail.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 3:21 PM
>>>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> Some weeks ago, we had a discussion here about the different approaches we
>>>> have for the @wikipedia account at Twitter. We don't know yet how many
>>>> interactions does the account has, but as I said in the discussion, we try
>>>> to find ways to measure our work at @euwikipedia. Today I want to share
>>>> with you that this account was ranked last week as the most influential
>>>> social-movements account in Basque language
>>>> (https://umap.eus/ranking/gizartea) and the 10th most influential account
>>>> in all categories (https://umap.eus/ranking/orokorra). This is a good
>>>> metric we use to know if we are doing fine or not.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Galder
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> From: Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
>>>> Sent: Friday, August 5, 2022 8:50 PM
>>>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 18:48, Lauren Dickinson <ldickin...@wikimedia.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Also, Andy, we will follow up this week regarding your questions
>>>>> about the @WiktionaryUsers and @Wiktionary accounts.
>>>>
>>>> Three working weeks have passed since the above was written; I've seen
>>>> no such follow-up. Have I missed something?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Andy Mabbett
>>>> @pigsonthewing
>>>> https://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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