And if we're digging in the history, let's also publicly shame the culprit, User:DroneOfTheWiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Social_media&diff=1041046&oldid=1038651
Strainu 2015-01-09 21:59 GMT+02:00 Strainu <strain...@gmail.com>: > 2015-01-09 21:24 GMT+02:00 Rob Moen <rm...@wikimedia.org>: >> 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 >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
