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Remove Facebook, Twitter share links from WMF website

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T341665

Following a discussion triggered by the recent DistroWatch debacle, I've updated phabricator:T341665#10499544 to suggest removal of the Facebook and Twitter share links from WMF blog posts. They're so unused that nobody noticed they don't even work. Nemo 06:20, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi Nemo, thank you for your suggestion! We appreciate your feedback on the share buttons. Updating them is part of our roadmap for next fiscal year, alongside other website improvements, and we will consider your recommendation as we enhance these buttons. Expanding the reach and visibility of our stories by enabling users to share content across various channels is important to us, and it's a key focus in our upcoming improvements. Thank you again! SCampos-WMF (talk) 13:25, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

It takes literally 5 minutes to remove those. I don't think that we need to wait for the next fiscal year, as it isn't something that will take staff time at extense. Theklan (talk) 08:36, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Any plan to open wikimedia.social to any member of the Wikimedia Movement?

Hi: At WMES they are considering setting up a mastodon instance but I'm to me it would be really better to have just one common server. Any hint about this? Thanks. —Ismael Olea (talk) 11:17, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

A Mastodon instance for everyone who has a Wikimedia user account can be useful, but I think it also risks (further) fragmentation of discussion spaces - some people might want to use it for content discussion, in place of wiki talk pages. An instance for anyone with a broadly-defined PR role in the Wikimedia movement might be more wise. whym (talk) 06:29, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

It's a great idea to free discussions from the user experience restrictions of a wiki page. Thanks! —Ismael Olea (talk) 09:49, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm curious about the reasoning why it's better to have just one common server, since this IHMO is completely against the idea of decentralization that the fediverse makes possible. Taavi (talk!) 09:54, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

The reasoning about why is better to have a common server is because a Mastodon server is thought as a place for people sharing the same interests. —Ismael Olea (talk) 09:47, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I think more than that it's that there probably aren't that many people on it so having just one common server means it'll be a more active place rather a fairly dead, boring one. (People across Wikimedia can also have vastly different interests such as tech development vs writing content about a certain subject area vs taking photos etc.) to free discussions from the user experience restrictions of a wiki page One thing that would be great I think are structured argument maps that can be better than walls of text of i.a. repeating claims and false claims being repeated by many users, and can structure things into a more overseeable structured format (an example: Should scientists contribute to Wikipedia?) – if that is ever feasible with Mastodon I'd like to know. Making it so that all Wikipedia users can log in there with just a click would be very valuable. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:23, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Can wikipedia.org subdomain be a Bluesky handle?

I created and post from Ukrainian Wikipedia profile on Bluesky. Is there a possibility to have an official handle? -- Ата ^(talk) 12:11, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

mastodon and the social media strategy

Reading the comments on this talk page and the archives, I get more doubts than certainties about what exactly is the "social media strategy" — is there a page actually describing it, any plans about its update, and is that something the community can engage with? In particular, I cannot find the exact reason why it was chosen not to have the social media team have presence on mastodon and control over the Wikimedia account, when can that decision going to be reconsidered, or where would be the correct place to argue for it. Any pointers to the right direction would be appreciated. Mind Booster Noori (talk) 17:27, 15 January 2026 (UTC)