As someone who uses social media frequently i'd love to see us use our resources more effectively. I've found it really helpful to use twitter for our mobile site (http://twitter.com/#!/WikimediaMobile) and i've been growing that community steadily through outreach, hackathons, etc.
+1 --tomasz On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > We've had @wikimediatech accounts on twitter & identica for some time now: > * http://identi.ca/wikimediatech > * https://twitter.com/#!/wikimediatech > that basically broadcast every single action that is logged to the > server admin log: > * http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log > > The account has 78 followers on identica and 430 on twitter (probably > counting the spammers). > > I'm wondering if there are actually people reading all the stuff > that's pushed through these channels. > > My gut feeling is that the few people reading these feeds are also > those that would know to check the SLA if they encountered an issue, > or know how to use the RSS feed of the SLA page if they really wanted > the information in real time. > > Meanwhile, we don't really have social media channels dedicated to > Wikimedia tech stuff, i.e. channels where we can actually post stuff, > links, blog posts, outage info, etc and engage with a larger community > of people interested in our tech operations. I feel that the accounts > would be much more useful if we reduced the amount of semi-random > information we post there. > > So, I'm basically proposing to repurpose the @wikimediatech accounts for > this. > > Thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? You don't care? > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation > http://donate.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
