Facebook is a de-facto major venue of communication for a great majority of
Internet users. Many communities, user groups, and chapters have some kind
of formal presence on Facebook -- "groups" or "pages". Directing visitors
to your wiki to *your own wiki's* presence on this other major platform,
i.e. a direct link to your group/page on Facebook, is absolutely fine. It
is *quite* different from, say, just linking to www.facebook.com or
explicitly endorsing it as a platform ("Join Facebook! It's great!") in
general.
As you note, a number of communities have done or are doing this.
Especially for smaller communities, the impact of such link placement can
be a significant driver of traffic (i.e. readers!) to your community
group/page on Facebook, which itself is important for outreach, awareness,
and volunteer recruitment, and therefore is mission-aligned.
Cheers,
Asaf
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:06 AM Jimmy Wales <jimmywa...@wikia-inc.com>
wrote:
> Speaking only for myself, not as a member of the board, I don't know of
> any legal or other reason why this should not be done. I think we
> should be very careful about links or appearance of endorsement
> especially on article pages, but outreach to people in the world should
> take place wherever we find a willing and useful audience.
>
>
>
> On 2/28/18 6:29 AM, Minata Hatsune wrote:
> > I know it based on local consensus, but what I mean here is: those
> > consensus valid for WMF Term of Use and others policies or not? Because
> it
> > same with Wikipedia have linked with 3rd party, which is a commerical
> > website.
> >
> > Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy
> > Vietnamese Wikimedian
> >
> > 2018-02-28 18:52 GMT+09:00 James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com>:
> >
> >> IMO this is based on local community consensus. It is not a global
> policy.
> >>
> >> James
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Minata Hatsune <
> minatahats...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello, I have a question: is it legal and valid for Wikipedia
> communities
> >>> put promotion links to their Facebook pages on public space as Main
> Page
> >> or
> >>> Sitenotice?
> >>>
> >>> I see many of Wikimedia projects doing this, as Indonesia Wikipedia,
> >> Arabic
> >>> Wikipedia, etc... Their Facebooks page also have blue checkmark of
> >> Facebook
> >>> as verified.
> >>>
> >>> All what I concern is: Facebook is a commerical website, we put a link
> as
> >>> "official" to them, will it same with Wikipedia biased for Facebook and
> >>> violated the NPOV policy? And in finally: is it OK if other projects
> can
> >> do
> >>> that? Vietnamese Wikipedia also have a discussion about sitenotice
> >>> promotion to Facebook at <
> >>> https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Th%E1%BA%A3o_lu%E1%
> >>> BA%ADn/Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_b%C3%A1_trang_Facebook_%22Wikipedia_
> >>> ti%E1%BA%BFng_Vi%E1%BB%87t%22
> >>>> . If this is OK, I think we have no reason to reject it.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you!
> >>>
> >>> Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy
> >>> Vietnamese Wikimedian
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