2015-01-09 21:24 GMT+02:00 Rob Moen <[email protected]>:
> Currently our approach on social media is that "Social media websites
> aren't useful for spreading news and reaching out to potential users and
> contributors." [1]

Actually, this seems like vandalism. See [5] for (what I believe to
be) the original content.

Why would we have dozens of social media accounts if we thought they
are useless?

Strainu

[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Social_media&oldid=999236



> I challenge this though.  Is it really true?   Twitter
> has 254 million active monthly users, with 500 million tweets sent per day
> [2], Facebook has 1.35 billion active monthly users users. [3]
>
>
> I know there are many active Wikipedians who frequent both of these sites.
> Should we be more actively encouraging people to share?
>
>
> The history of the Social Media page indicates this was added as an ‘initial
> dump’ back in November of 2011. [4]  But I wonder if it might be worth
> revisiting or refreshing this decision in light of the current world we
> live in.
>
>
> What do others think?   What would the reaction be to a sharethis.com type
> service where any site could engage ?   Would this be more valuable on
> mobile than than desktop?
>
>
>
> 1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media
>
> 2: https://about.twitter.com/company
>
> 3: http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info
>
> 4:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Social_media&diff=1318877&oldid=458857
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