Social media
Wikimedia Belgium is using several social media applications:
| Platform | Characteristics |
|---|---|
| Bluesky | Spin-off of Twitter/X - Replacing Twitter/X ? |
| Diff | WMF Wikimedia platform, not used & not well known by many volunteers |
| Discord | niche platform |
| popular; general public | |
| Google Meet | practical video conferencing tool available to everybody |
| IRC | dated; archaic interface; not used |
| professional; excellent for hiring | |
| Newsletter | still valid / practical |
| Spatial Chat | few users; weekly session Tuesday 19:00-21:00 |
| Telegram | few users, popular by technical people. e.g. Wikidata |
| Twitter/X | spam, advertising, hostile, opposing Wikipedia |
| popular for 1:1 and small informal groups | |
| Wikimedia mailinglists | old interface, basic written communication (one of the oldest internet applications) |
Issues
[edit]The problems with social media are that they:
- are fragmented, monolithic
- can be flooded with spam and advertising
- difficult to use free licenses
- not always built-in multilingual
- not flexible in configuration / structure
Classic communication
[edit]- Private mailing list
- Phone calls