Social media

Follow and share MediaWiki news across your social networks!

But please keep using the usual project channels for support, bug reports and discussion (why?).

MediaWiki
Official account spreading news about the MediaWiki community at large.


 * @MediaWiki at identi.ca.
 * @MediaWiki at Twitter.
 * @MediaWiki at Facebook.
 * +MediaWiki at Google+

Check also the workflow for posting updates, sharing posts and following accounts.

wikimediatech
Run by a bot offering the server admin log at http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/


 * @wikimediatech at identi.ca.
 * @wikimediatech at Twitter.

The accounts are owned by Werdna.

Misc
Other MediaWiki focused links to social networks.

Identi.ca


 * MediaWiki group.
 * User self tagged with "mediawiki".

Twitter


 * "mediawiki" search.

Facebook

It's not clear what we want to list here. Check the discussion.

LinkedIn


 * MediaWiki Users group.
 * MediaWiki developers group.

Our approach
Social media are useful to get news spread and reach out to potential users and contributors. They can also be very demanding and time-consuming. And they can fragment communities, sucking free content and public contacts to their frequently closed and commercially driven environments.

This is why we are happy to play with social media when they are useful and simple to manage, but we are reluctant to put a lot of effort engaging, promoting and building isolated sub-communities. Still, help and ideas for improvement are welcome as always.

Workflow
How we handle the @MediaWiki accounts.


 * 1) Go through each account separately. Automation / aggregation isn't worth currently.
 * 2) Look at explicit mentions and replies.
 * 3) Share if appropriate, using the functionality of the service (e.g. don't type "RT" in Twitter).
 * 4) No replies from @MediaWiki accounts. Just pointing to the right feedback channels is ok. We don't want to engage in parallel discussion / support. You can do this from your personal account.
 * 5) Look at the timeline. Share if there is anything technically relevant.
 * 6) Optional: search "MediaWiki" to find more potential news.
 * 7) Twitter: "Top" results are usually enough. "All" tends to be too noisy.
 * 8) Google+: "All" is good enough as there is little noise.
 * 9) Sync the relevant posts with Template:MediaWiki_News.
 * 10) Usually taking as basis the @MediaWiki Twitter timeline works.
 * 11) Sync the relevant posts with the other channels.
 * 12) Ideally anything posted at Template:MediaWiki_News should be posted in all channels - or at least at the popular Facebook.
 * 13) It is ok to have differences between channels e.g. Twitter tends to have more RTs that are not worth re-posting in other channels.


 * Maintained by Sumana Harihareswara and Quim Gil.

Sharing your updates
If you mention "@MediaWiki" in your posts and we see it from our replies / connections then we will consider to share it in our timeline.

No promises made. Even less guarantees if you use !MediaWiki or #MediaWiki since we can't monitor those systematically (especially the latter in Twitter).

No extra work will be done to spread your update to other channels. Looking at the workflow you can see what you get automatically by posting in each channel.

Following
From @MediaWiki we just follow other official accounts closely related to MediaWiki, to promote them and share their updates easily.


 * @Wikipedia: showing our link to the MediaWiki based project everybody knows.
 * @Wikimedia: we are part of the Wikimedia movement.
 * @wikisignpost: includes a weekly technology report featuring MediaWiki news.
 * @WikimediaMobile: mobile tech updates.
 * @wikimediaatwork: a majority of job postings are MediaWiki related.
 * @wikimediatech: advertising the Wikimedia infrastructure activity.

We can also follow your MediaWiki Groups accounts.