Hi all,
I wanted to follow up with you on a topic that came up on the first
campaign launch meeting we had last week: WMF Support for EduWiki Campaign.
After considering our options and current resources online, we decided not
to write a blog about this on the first week of the campaign on the WMF
blog. Since we have such a fine microsite, and we worked so hard on it,
this space will be our anchor for any messaging ww'll do to promote the
campaign.
For this reason, we are going to focus our efforts on social media only at
the moment. We are going to tweet and FB post from @Wikipedia and
@Wikimedia one post created by us (see attached). As per Jeff Elder's
advice, we are going to contact fellow organizations / personalities, to
retweet us on Twitter: Craig Newmark, Creative Commons, and the UN.
Further, we are going to be re-tweeting any tweets from organizations or
personalities that mention the campaign. Two good examples of this are WM
Ukraine <https://twitter.com/wikimedia_ua/status/770911431071891457> and
Telam <https://twitter.com/AgenciaTelam/status/773633196651053057> posts on
Twitter.
These social media efforts are going to happen *tomorrow, September 8*.
This is because on that day, we celebrate International Literacy Day *[1]*,
one of UNESCO's global events. This year it is the 50th Literacy Day, and
the slogan is "Reading the past, writing the future", which aligns
perfectly with the goals of the campaign. This is also why it made the most
sense for WMF to engage on this day.
Because the big push from WMF and these other actors is happening on
September 8, you should expect the highest visibility of the campaign that
day. You can, however, promote the campaign locally at your own timing. Be
mindful that collab members appear, divided by language, in the "Contact"
page of the campaign:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Campaign/Contact
Melina and Paola have already started promoting the campaign, and this is
why there is already news coverage of EduWiki Campaign in Spanish. I have
seen one blog from Vira on the Wikimedia Ukraine blog as well. *If you
tweet about the campaign, or see a local media channel post on social media
about the campaign, please send any repercussions to this thread. We will
retweet / repost from WMF channels.* Although we can only retweet
organizations or big personalities, not individuals.
We are also gathering press repercussions on a slack Vahid created to this
end:
https://eduwikicampaign.slack.com/messages/press/
*Please also add media coverage, blogs and other repercussions to the
slack.*
If you are working on communication outlets and are struggling in some
respect, please let us know. We are here to support you! =)
We have created a spreadsheet
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10etbSkIfBuUraq1dYJd3j-d1k7DI_W7guXPdmspy_hQ/edit#gid=0>
with
tweet ideas, and columns in languages represented in the collab. We will be
checking this regularly to see if there are tweets we can post in other
languages. Feel free to take tweet ideas from here, too!
Happy campaign, everyone! It is an honour to be co-hosting #EduWiki with
you <3
Best,
María
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, PC&L Team
\\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
*[1] *
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrat…
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Vahid Masrour <vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Dear Collab members,
We had our campaign launch meeting a few hours ago, and we invite you to
read the notes on:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/
1wXejU8BOd2DMTuO7PklA13rZuvzmNpG6cV76xtUakME/edit?usp=sharing
Your comments and questions are welcome on the document.
We are seeing the need for a second meeting, and as you will see in the
document, this is time sensitive as a meeting would be preferable before
september 8. I would therefore like to propose a meeting for Tuesday,
september 6. I realize this is short notice, and that it would be
preferable that we have more participants than we had today. If that day is
not possible for you, please let us know.
I've created a Doodle to help us all figure out which time would be
optimal:
http://doodle.com/poll/ktmfmnwtnkgx5esv
Looking forward to seeing you!
Vahid.
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education