Social media
Wikimedia Belgium is using several social media applications:
| Platform | Characteristics |
|---|---|
| popular | |
| spam, advertising | |
| professional | |
| Telegram | few users, popular by technical people |
| popular for 1:1 | |
| Diff | Wikimedia platform, not used by many volunteers |
| 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
- can be flooded with spam and advertising
- difficult to use free licenses
- not explicitely multilingual
- not flexible in configuration
Other ways
[edit]- Private mailing list
- Phone calls