Nikola - but does it bring any added value to Wikipedia? Does number of active editors in Bulgarian Wikipedia increased because of it? Can you see it in Wikipedia statics? IMHO it is the only thing which might legitimate such an action.
Ten e-mail został wysłany z komputera wolnego od wirusów chronionego przez Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> 2016-02-19 1:41 GMT+01:00 Nikola Kalchev <nikola.kalc...@gmail.com>: > Hello Rodrigo, > > on Bulgarian Wikipedia we put a text asking readers to like our Facebook > page, our Twitter and Google+ accounts, as well to visit our blog [1]. The > Facebook likes went up from 1923 to 5381 in a month, 126 people followed us > on Twitter (virtually nobody did it before that), 123 people followed us on > Google+ and the reader numbers on our blog went significantly up (I don't > have the data right now). Nobody in the community objected to this and we > would probably do it again some day. We decided to remove it after a month, > because we saw that the number of new likes declined over time. > > Best regards, > Nikola (User:Лорд Бъмбъри > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Лорд_Бъмбъри>) > Wikimedians of Bulgaria > > [1] > > https://bg.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8:Sitenotice&oldid=7097975 > (it says "Like the page of Wikipedia in Bulgarian on Facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaBG>. You can also follow us on Twitter > <https://twitter.com/WikipediaBG> and Google+ > <https://plus.google.com/103033788118241359476/posts> as well as visit our > blog <http://blog.wikimedia.org/>"). > > This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. > www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> > <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Rodrigo Padula < > rodrigopad...@wikimedia.org.br> wrote: > > > Hello fellows! > > > > Since the end of the last year some contributors from pt.wikipedia are > > discussing regarding the idea of including the promotion of our Facebook > > Page on site Notice [1] > > > > That proposal was started by Teles, a Brazilian steward. He received a > lot > > of local support. > > > > The general idea is to bring more people from Facebook to access > Wikipedia > > through our Facebook page, but what we are doing is redirecting users > from > > pt.wikipedia to Facebook and including a free Facebook ads on > pt.wikipedia. > > > > I would like to know if it is ok for the Wikimedia Movement and if this > > kind of Facebook promotional campaign was proposed and published in other > > wikipedias/wikimedia projects. > > > > [1] > > > https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/propostas/Inserir_p%C3%A1gina_da_Wikip%C3%A9dia_em_portugu%C3%AAs_do_Facebook_no_sitenotice_%2825nov2015%29 > > > > Best regards > > > > Rodrigo Padula > > Coordenador de Projetos > > Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa > > http://www.wikimedia.org.br > > +55 21 99326-0558 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
