Talk:Microblogging handles

Control

It might be useful to try to research and document who controls these accounts. Adambro 19:24, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

I agree, I think a lot of the 'research' would simply entail direct messaging them on Twitter and asking --Dgultekin 23:11, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

It would be useful to put project and language/geography in two different columns to make it sortable and less confusing. Nemo 20:41, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

New logo at Wikivoyage

Wikivoyage has a new logo, whe you have time it might be a good idea to update it at https://twitter.com/Wikivoyage , thanks! Nicolas1981 (talk) 05:55, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Totals

Wow, these numbers are three years out-of-date. I guess this page is a low priority. Liz (talk) 02:02, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

What are three years? :) Please help update them. --Nemo 09:38, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Theredmonkey is being so kind as to update many figures. Thanks! --Nemo 12:34, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Update?

Hi, so a while ago a friend made this list of social media handles and asked me to post them, but sadly I didn't manage to deliver. Anyone who'd like to look into this now? TYVM!!! Elitre (talk) 08:48, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

There isn't a single microblogging handle in that page. It only lists some Facebook pages for WLM and WLE, which could be added as new sections over there. Nemo 20:19, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Separate Twitter and Mastodon

I'd like to sort the microblogging list by followers, but it currently has Twitter and Mastodon together. Would we be able to either seperate Twitter and Mastodon, or create seperate follower fields? This week the new app Threads is launching which will fragment things again if Wikimedia chapters start using it.

I see that WM France is listed separately under Mastodon, but they are the only ones. Jimmyjrg (talk) 07:15, 5 July 2023 (UTC) (edited for clarity)

The number of followers on Instagram Threads and on Twitter is largely meaningless as the act of following an account only produces a slight difference in the likelyhood that the recommender system will push one of your posts to you, so I don't think it's particularly useful to track in detail. I'd personally recommend to include only the order of magnitude of followers on the most meaningful account (for example, having 1000 followers on Mastodon is more significant than having 10000 followers on Twitter). Nemo 07:47, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

I think it's interesting to see annual growth, and this can be used as a starting point to learn how other accounts are using these platforms for engagement. Jimmyjrg (talk) 00:12, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

A more useful metric could be the number of posts. Nemo 13:37, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

That's a good point. Mastodon does list the number of posts on a users page, but Twitter doesn't so each account holder would need to update their own stats. I agree follower counts are largely useless though given how many bots there are. Jimmyjrg (talk) 01:08, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Twitter shows the number of posts on every interface I know about, but if you can't find the figure on your preferred client you can always check https://nitter.net . Nemo 06:44, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for that, I hadn't seen that one. Jimmyjrg (talk) 06:57, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Discontinued section

At what point does something get moved to the Discontinued section? Most of the listing there seem to be pages that no longer exist, or Twitter accounts that have been inactive for the better part of a decade. But scrolling through the page, there are several deleted Twitter accounts that it seems would be appropriate to be moved to Discontinued. There are also a fair number of Twitter accounts that have become inactive within the last year, and I'm not sure at what point those would be considered to be "discontinued". - OdinintheNorth (talk) 19:20, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Instagram

I don't believe Instagram is a microblogging platform, and have removed those listings from the page. I've copied the listings here for reference:

Instagram account	Project	Language	Status	Followers	Managed by	Updated
@laviquipedia	Wikipedia	Catalan Wikipedia	Inactive			2023-07-06
@dcwwiki	User group Affiliate	Multilingual	Active	313	Deoband Community Wikimedia	2023-07-06
@wikimediaau	Wikimedia Australia	English	Active	330	Wikimedia Australia	2023-07-06
@wmturkic	User group Affiliate	Multilingual	Active	206	Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group	2023-07-16
@wikimediaturkey	User group Affiliate	Turkish	Active	1,145	Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey	2023-07-06
@wikimediamy	User group Affiliate	Malay	Active	934	Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia	2023-07-06
@mswikipedia	Wikipedia	Malay	Active	1,131	Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia	2023-07-06
@wikikamus	Wiktionary	Malay	Active	81	Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia	2023-07-06
@wikiberita	Wikinews (Incubator)	Malay	Active	28	Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia	2023-07-06

Instagram account	Country	Status	Managed by	Updated
@wikilovesmonuments	International	Active	M.hekmat	2018-01-24
@wikimonumentsiran	Iran	Active	M.hekmat, MahmoudHashemi	2018-01-24
@wikilovesmonumentsitalia	Italy	Last Active 09/2016		2018-01-24

- OdinintheNorth (talk) 16:16, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Domain for Bluesky

Now that Bluesky has become a thing, is it worth setting up a Wikimedia-specific domain for project handles? Maybe using one of the existing domains like wikis.world? — ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email · w:en) 22:32, 19 November 2024 (UTC)