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Couldn't Wikimedia take the lead when it comes to social media decentralization

I just noticed that the Wikimedia Foundation profile on Mastodon is very inactive compared to X profile. Taking into account a recent example, where more than 20 million users had to flee from X due to its criminal practices, wouldn't it make sense and be used as an opportunity to reach the audience that is migrating to the Fediverse?

The Wikimedia Foundation seems to be aligned with some core ideas related to decentralization (e.g. chapters and user groups), not to mention its long-standing voice in the open source world and against disinformation, which seems to be an important goal o X and its owner? @Everton137 Tom (talk) 13:56, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

+1 Kaffeeringe (talk) 14:20, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Everton137. Thanks for your question!

The official Mastodon account for the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the Mastodon instance, is managed by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Product & Technology Department, while X/Twitter is maintained by the Communications Department, so you’re right in noting the cadence may not be the same. We are working with them to figure out the right pace of posting, and understand the flag around activity. As mentioned in the “About” section, the instance is “primarily used as a space for people to connect and talk about tech related topics”.

With our social media work, we try to meet people where they are. This means that we are always exploring and monitoring these social media platforms to evaluate our presence in different channels, including on Twitter/X. Despite the recent changes, there are still many Wikimedia volunteers that maintain a presence there. This is why we are active as well: to respond to volunteer needs and amplify movement messages, and to help our goal of creating awareness of the free knowledge movement. Thank you! LPasqual (WMF) (talk) 15:38, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

P. S. someone just pointed out this page Wikis World, which is connected to my question. --Tom (talk) 14:19, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes @wikipedia@wikis.world is the account that everyone follows (currently about 24K followers). It's run by a team of community volunteers. It's really surprising that it isn't even mentioned on this page. Nosferattus (talk) 00:48, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

This page is about the social media accounts run by Wikimedia Foundation, rather than the volunteer community. SCP-2000 03:08, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

If that's true, the page should be titled WMF social media. Nosferattus (talk) 16:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Would the SAL bot meet guidelines for hosting on Wikimedia.Social?

Stashbot's @wikimedia_sal@botsin.space account needs to be replaced by 2024-12-15 due to the planned shutdown of botsin.space. The bot makes an unlisted post for each Server Admin Log (SAL) generated for the Wikimedia production network. This looks to be a volume of 200-400 posts per day based on some random spot checking. The bot has not historically had auto deletion setup, but I think it would be reasonable to set a 6-12 month retention limit for it with exceptions for pinned posts.

I would be happy to talk more with anyone on the wikimedia.social side of things who is interested in learning more about the bot or the audience for SAL messages. -- BDavis (WMF) (talk) 16:23, 31 October 2024 (UTC)