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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
