Can you please tweet our UX Designer opening (below) to Wikimedia and
Wikipedia Twitter accounts? Thank you!
Interact with our reader & editor community throughout the design process
as a Sr UX Designer on our team! http://grnh.se/xq817m
*Emanuela Neagu *
Senior Recruiting Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
p. 415.839.6885 x6640
eneagu(a)wikimedia.org
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Hi all,
one function of this list is to be open to social media suggestions
from occasional contributors, who may not be on this list. Because it
also receives spam, such messages normally need to be approved
manually by the list moderators (James and myself). But following a
discussion elsewhere, I have just whitelisted all @wikimedia.org
addresses. We'll see whether this works well (there is a tiny, tiny
possibility that it will increase the likelihood that a spammers
successfully forges a From: address to get a message through, but the
probability should be really low). We can then also look further into
other whitelisting options - IIRC we've already been doing that for
addresses that have once sent messages which were approved.
As a general reminder: When replying to emails from non-list members
on this list, one needs to CC them explicitly, or they won't receive
the response. (This is of course true regardless of whether a sender
is whitelisted or whether their email was approved manually.)
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
Because https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia counts as a brand page,
this article is kind of interesting for us as well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/technology/facebook-to-cut-unpaid-posts-b…
TLDR: starting in January, Facebook will down-rank some posts from
brand pages that are considered too promotional. Nothing to worry
about too much; it's also not the first such announcement, I recall
that one or two years ago there were changes that likewise triggered
discussions whether FB was trying to pressure all brands into buying
paid ads instead of just putting out normal posts. But it's probably
worth looking at the example in the article for a post that is too
promotional.
Also interesting are these numbers:
"Now, when a brand publishes something to Facebook, 2 to 8 percent of
its fans see it, according to outside estimates."
This kind of matches the range many of our posts are in, although we
also have quite a few way below 2 percent. To wit, the page has 4.2
million Likes right now, and these are the five posts with the highest
Reach numbers in the last three months:
Nov 8: Aaron Swartz post recycle - 630.8K
Nov 15: King Joffrey - 334.1K
Nov 16: Goodall Family/Kiwix - 271K (already)
Oct 3: WMF grant for Egyptian Wikipedia's WikiWomen online writing
competition - 261.9K
Oct 27: NYT article "Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for
Ebola Information" - 261.4K (plus 202.4K in a second post for the same
link)
As a comparison, the highest Reach (by far) for a single post in the
first half of 2014 was the 315.4K for the Eurovision post in May, when
we still had less than 2 million Likes.
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
Hello everyone,
Just want to make sure I get the LGTM for including a post for The Age
Article featuring Jack Gleeson endorsing Wikipedia. Thanks for review!
f/g: Everyone uses Wikipedia, including King Joffrey of House Baratheon
"I'm part of the Generation Y millennials who depend upon Wikipedia for all
their education needs," says Game of Thrones star, Jack Gleeson in a recent
interview.
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/how-jack-gleeson-spoile…
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Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org