Rob, thank you for this post and the discussion it has started, and thank you also for detecting (indirectly) a relative subtle piece of vandalism in our mw:Social_media page.
There are many mixed topics here, and solving each requires many more mixed tasks. I have picked the one that our Engineering Community team is directly responsible for, and I have created an epic task for it: mediawiki.org news distributed to social media and Wikimedia tech blog https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86437 I went into some details and probably made some assumptions; everything is editable. :) On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Rob Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] 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 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
