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Update on wikisignpost Twitter/Facebook posts
As a general update re social media, I have doing Twitter and Facebook announcements for each new issue since February (except last month's tweet, which someone else kindly took care of).
On Facebook I'm currently posting to the Wikipedia Weekly group from my personal account (example), since this tends to get much more engagement than posts from the wikisignpost Facebook page (which, as I understand it, can't post to that popular group), making it frankly speaking not seem very worthwhile to do manual posts from the latter. That said, it would be great to automatically forward the tweets to the Facebook page. This is possible - I have set it up for the WikiResearch Twitter and Facebook feeds using this IFTTT applet and it works fine. However, it seems that this applet only supports one page per personal Facebook account, meaning that I can't use it for wikisignpost since I'm already using it for WikiResearch.
Long story short: If someone else from the Signpost team has a Facebook account and would like to join the wikisignpost page's staff with the sole obligation of having that IFTTT applet set up once to run through their account (or if one of the other two current members, Evad37 and The ed17, would be up for that), that would be an easy win. I can walk them through the initial setup and there is basically no effort required after that.
Regards, HaeB (talk) 23:41, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
- @HaeB: Sounds fine to me. Ought I to send you an email, or what? jp×g 20:51, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- @HaeB: I think I should still have access to that Facebook account/page. You can send me an email with instructions and I'll take a look on the weekend - Evad37 [talk] 09:37, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks both! Evad37, I have emailed you. JPxG, if you are still interested in being added to the Facebook page's personnel to help improve the bus factor, I think that would make sense too - for transparency, it currently consists of The ed17 (as admin) and Evad37 and myself (as editors). Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:15, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not up for running or posting anything to the Signpost page, as that would be a conflict of interest. I'm still on there only to help with the bus factor. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:04, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- For the record, Evad37 has since set up the bridge, and it appears to work [1]. Regards, HaeB (talk) 19:08, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks both! Evad37, I have emailed you. JPxG, if you are still interested in being added to the Facebook page's personnel to help improve the bus factor, I think that would make sense too - for transparency, it currently consists of The ed17 (as admin) and Evad37 and myself (as editors). Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:15, 31 December 2021 (UTC)