On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Maarten Dammers <maar...@mdammers.nl>wrote:
> Hi Matthew, > > Op 15-8-2012 2:37, Matthew Roth schreef: > > Hi all, > Along with a couple of people at the Foundation, I manage the big social > media accounts for Wikipedia on Facebook and @wikipedia and @wikimedia on > Twitter. I'd like to invite more participation from the wider WLM community > in the next few weeks and as we start the contest in September. > > *Facebook:* > The last two days, I've been reposting the top ten photos by country from > last year on the Wikipedia Facebook page and it has been very popular, with > lots of people clicking links and coming to look at the images (the Romania > post from yesterday had a Facebook reach of 100,000 people getting the > message on their wall and over 1,000 people clicking through the photos). > Still waiting on the numbers from the Portugal post from today, but it > looks like it was popular too. > https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia > > Cool. We're also being tracked at > http://www.museum-analytics.org/wiki-loves-monuments . > I'll be sure to do a specific post encouraging Wikipedia Facebook fans to also like WLM page. > > I'll continue to share the posts from each country in last year's > contest through the start of WLM 2012 on the Wikipedia FB page, but I > wonder if we can do more in other languages in addition to English? > https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonuments > I can geo-target among our Facebook followers, so I could do specific > posts in your language and your country, if that's something you would > like. I've already shared a couple of posts from Wiki Loves Monuments > Argentina, España and Chile today, but happy to do more if you let me know > in advance and provide the text for me in your language (or if you've > already shared in your language on Facebook, I can just re-share it there). > > *Twitter:* > I hope you can help me coordinate @wikipedia tweets as well. If you are > going to be doing a tweet from your national WLM account (or your Chapter > or personal accounts) and want me to re-tweet it, please let me know. I've > tried to find relevant tweets already, but may have missed some. If you > haven't seen me retweet a message, please let me know. > > Maybe we can also get some big accounts like @creativecommons or > @jimmy_wales to pick up on this? > @creativecommons did a tweet about WLM on August 5th, without prompting from us. I imagine we can encourage a couple more from them. > This link seems to catch most relevant tweets: > http://tinyurl.com/wlmtwitter > > Maarten > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org*
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