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Using Social Media to recruit new editors
Get people who are active on social media to also become active on Wikipedia
idea creator
Wuselig
advisor
Touzrimounir
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created on14:15, 9 August 2014 (UTC)


Project idea

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What is the problem you're trying to solve?

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People don't know how to edit Wikipedia. Show them it could be just as easy as writing on Social Media

What is your solution?

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This could bring more editors to Wikipedia and solve all our problems: diversity, gender-gap, increasing number of editors

Goals

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Get Involved

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Participants

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  • Advisor use the tool of publicity of facebook twitter and google+to promote wikimedia project Touzrimounir (talk) 15:50, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Endorsements

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Project idea

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What is the problem you're trying to solve?

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People don't know how to edit Wikipedia. Show them it could be just as easy as writing on Social Media

What is your solution?

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  • Sponsored adds in the Social Media
  • Special Facebook Page (engaging content or posts)
  • Partnerships with High Profile Community Users
  • Balloons (create Pages that get viral by sharing)
  • organizing meetups
  • personalize your edits (everytime you make an edit on wikipedia, people on FB will get informed)

Goals

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This could bring more editors to Wikipedia and solve all our problems: diversity, gender-gap, increasing number of editors

Get Involved

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Participants

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  1. Wuselig
  2. Reem Al-Kashif
  3. Netha Hussain
  4. Fernando
  5. Samir Elsharbaty

Endorsements

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