Hi all,
We just published "“My favorite website”: Stephen Colbert’s complicated
relationship with Wikipedia" to the blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/08/colberts-complicated-relationship-wit…
Proposed social messages follow:
*Facebook/Google+:*
- We're watching you, Stephen Colbert—don't mess with us tonight. *(<-
his new TV show debuts tonight)*
- Stephen, you tried to claim that you’re no fan of encyclopedias. We
knew better.
- Of course, Stephen Colbert and Wikipedia are very different—one has an
army of supporters, has received multiple awards, and is generally beloved
by the Internet. The other is Stephen.
- *We may want to change the default image on social to the one from the
main page: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ <https://blog.wikimedia.org/>*
*Twitter:*
- .@StephenAtHome Be good tonight—we'll be watching. And editing.
#wikiality
- .@StephenAtHome, you tried to claim that you’re no fan of
encyclopedias. We knew better.
--
Ed Erhart
Editorial Associate
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello everyone,
Tonight 5pm local time is the second in a series of "Wikipedia Wednesdays"
at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Here's some proposed social media.It is
sponsored by Art+Feminism. Thank you for your review.
Facebook:
Fb/G: Wikipedia Wednesday at the Art Gallery of Ontario invites
participants to an evening of capturing history and adding Canadian artists
to Wikipedia.
Link:
http://torontoist.com/2015/09/editing-the-wikipedia-narrative-of-women-in-a…
*Then, I was thinking of geo-targetting to Toronto the RSVP page.*
Fb: You're invited to to edit the Wikipedia narrative of women in art.
http://www.ago.net/artfeminism-wikipedia-wednesday1
t: In Toronto? You're invited to invited to edit the Wikipedia narrative of
women in Art @Torontoist Link:
http://torontoist.com/2015/09/editing-the-wikipedia-narrative-of-women-in-a…
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Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
Just checking if anyone has objections for us to share this link from our
social media accounts: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlm-stats/#countries
Would be great to let our follower know who is in the league periodically!
Thanks!
--
Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
Dear colleagues,
Aligned with discussions at the Wikimedia Conference about coordinating
press releases around the world, I would like to invite you to participate
in the drafting and upcoming publication of a community-written press
release that celebrates English Wikipedia's milestone of 5 million
articles. I particularly extend this invitation to affiliates which are
located in areas where English (in any dialect) is a primary, official, or
common language.
Drafting and discussion are happening here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29#5_…
<javascript:void(0)>
Please ask your affiliates to participate in a near-simultaneous press
release from interested affiliates and WMF on the day that English
Wikipedia reaches 5 million articles.
Please make sure that your affiliate's contact information is current on
Meta so that it can be included in the press release. Journalists may wish
to speak with representatives of your organization about the press release
and about Wikipedia in general.
This event offers and opportunity to raise public awareness of Wikipedia in
general and our many accomplishments, as well as the many challenges and
opportunities ahead of us to make English Wikipedia in particular be more
accurate, friendly, inclusive, accessible, reputable, and comprehensive.
Regards,
Pine
Hey all - Ed's article is Today's Featured Article on Wikipedia today and
it would be cool to get it on social.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minas_Geraes-class_battleship
Proposed:
Twitter:
• Did you know that Brazil's Minas Geraes-class battleship started a naval
arms race in South America? [link]
Facebook:
• São Paulo, the second of two Minas Geraes-class battleships, went missing
without trace in a 1951 storm. The wreck has never been found. [link]
Joe
--
*Joe Sutherland*
Communications Intern [remote]
m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w:
JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>
Hi all,
We just published "Discover more on Wikipedia with new navigation features
for Android app" to the blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/10/wikipedia-app-new-navigation-features/
Many thanks to Dmitry Brant for the post.
Proposed social media messages follow:
*Facebook/Google+:*
- Do you have an Android phone? Go see the changes we've made to improve
your browsing:
- Are you ready to fall even further down the Wikipedia wormhole?
- Are you ready to fall even further down the Wikipedia rabbit hole?
*Twitter:*
- Are you ready to fall even further down the Wikipedia wormhole?
- Are you ready to fall even further down the Wikipedia rabbit hole?
- Try the #Wikirace with our new app: (<-- NOTE that "Wiki Game" and
"Wikipedia Game" are some app <http://thewikigame.com/> that isn't ours.
I adopted Wikirace from Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikirace>.)
Please comment on these and propose new ones, if you're so inclined!
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Ed Erhart
Editorial Associate
Wikimedia Foundation