Hey all,
We just published "News on Wikipedia: New Zealand selects flags, Google
freshens up, and more" to the Wikimedia blog. URL:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/02/new-zealand-flags-google-logo/
We plan to send out five pieces of social for this story, spread through
the rest of the week to keep things timely.
Please do comment for tone.
*Twitter:*
• New Zealand has picked the #flags its people will vote on this year
#nzflags #NewsOnWikipedia
• What do you think of @Google's new logo? #NewsOnWikipedia
• Alaska's Mount McKinley has a new name: #Denali. #NewsOnWikipedia
• Just the one world record set at this year's World Athletics
Championships... #NewsOnWikipedia
• Jihadist group ISIL destroyed another ancient Syrian temple this week.
#NewsOnWikipedia
*Facebook/G+:*
• One of four new flags could soon represent New Zealand, and its people
aren't impressed #NewsOnWikipedia
• Google have radically changed their logo for the first time since 1999.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• Forty years later, and Alaska's Mount McKinley is now Denali.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• This year's World Athletics Championships medal table was topped by Kenya
for the first time ever. #NewsOnWikipedia
• The ancient Temple of Bel in Syria was destroyed by jihadist group ISIL
this week. #NewsOnWikipedia
best,
Joe
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*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've just published "WWII veteran, kamikaze survivor honors shipmates
through Wikipedia articles" to the blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/04/wwii-veteran-wikipedia/
Proposed social media messages follow:
*Facebook/Google+:*
- "On deck, there was an inferno of fire and explosions ... Some of us
made our way through the debris to the fantail and took turns going over
the side into the waters of Ormac Bay; I lost my loosely tied shoes." *<--
love the last part; isn't it strange what details you remember about
traumatic experiences?*
- "On deck, there was an inferno of fire and explosions; the ship’s
superstructure had been reduced to rubble, and the forward magazine was
exploding."
- At 18, he survived a Japanese kamikaze strike. At 90, he writes for
Wikipedia.
- Three years to the day after Pearl Harbor, the kamikaze struck.
*Twitter:**Now that we have Buffer, can we schedule a bunch of posts for
Twitter over the next week?*
- #WWII @USNavy veteran, #kamikaze survivor wrote the article on his old
ship:
- Life in the @USNavy: “You might chip paint, do some painting, clean
burners and floor plates ...":
- After the #kamikaze, "there was an inferno of fire and explosions ...":
- Meet the #WWII @USNavy vet who wrote the @Wikipedia article on his own
ship:
- Three years to the day after Pearl Harbor, the kamikaze struck.
@NavyHistoryNews
- *That handle is for the US Navy's history division. Maybe they'll
retweet? Should we message them to ask for a retweet? What's the
etiquette
here?*
--
Ed Erhart
Editorial Associate
Wikimedia Foundation
Sorry for the late, and brief, notification. but we;re in the last
hour of the Wikipedia Science conference in London; the hashtag is
#wikisci
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk