Forum:Using Social Networking Sites

Usage of Social Networking Sites
Hello all, myself and a few others have recently discussed the usage of our social networking sites. Currently we have a Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. “the presence of the wikia in social networks is almost non existent” – User:Pau D. Seven. Similar to what Pau mentioned to me earlier in chat, by viewing the pages you can see our usage is very limited. This is something we want to see changed. Since our social networking following is quite low, this would be a good opportunity to discuss the best ways of using the social networks to our advantage and how increase its activity.

Here's what I believe we should be covering/posting on the sites:
 * 1) Podcasts
 * 2) Blog of the week
 * 3) User of the month
 * 4) Chapter releases
 * 5) Anime releases
 * 6) Site news/changes
 * 7) Series information (hiatus/break, films, ova’s, specials, plays, volumes, merchandise, games, etc)
 * 8) Character birthdays
 * 9) Article of the week
 * 10) Trivia
 * 11) Quizzes
 * 12) Featured picture/image
 * 13) Interactions with followers/fans/etc

While the majority of the list sounds similar to what Levi mentioned previously. I believe if we could ask the pages too post something at least once or twice a week it'd be a step forward. And obviously I think in order for this to work we should set some minor rules/guidelines such as: what page covers what, who can access the accounts, who can join the account, how people should run the page and etc. Also I noticed Levi mentioning about using Widgets on the mainpage. It'd be idle if we could agree to having widgets for our Twitter and Facebook as it would raise awareness that people can follow us on those sites. Lastly, I'd be willing to run one of the pages if other people aren't interested. So anyway thoughts? 16:15, June 27, 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree we need more posting on social media. Blog/user of the week could get iffy, but our could work with discussion. I could help run the Facebook page since I'm pretty active on FB 17:25, June 27, 2015 (UTC)

I'd welcome new blood to the facebook game. I have also toyed with the idea of using it to announce decisions we've made as a community. Take advantage of our status as a resource, not just a fan site. Things like "This is the way that ____ should be spelled", or "___ poll has ended with ___ result" or "We consider Monet and Vergo DEAD". Things like the latter could potentially draw up more editing activity, or people could find it boring as fuck. Thoughts on that, anyone? 18:36, June 27, 2015 (UTC)

As I previously mentioned before, I strongly recommend to think how to manage the access to these page, because since are treated as official pages of this wiki, they should be actually be "controlled" by the wiki (ex. admins). With this I'm not saying that the admins should be the one managing these pages, but just that we should avoid losing control of them. For example, let's say one of the current manager is not active anymore, if nobody has access to these pages, they will lost forever. It also go without saying that you should be very careful to "share" the control... I know it's tricky, but it's still an issue you may face in the future. It will also help having a wiki page listing exactly which social pages this wiki has and everybody who has access to them.

Firstly, I feel like we should have a specific group of users dedicated in keeping our social media alive. These users will be trusted members of our own wikia that have password access to our social media pages and will engage the community by posting about topics such as the ones mentioned by besty (though some I disagree with, but I'll come back to that later). We can have some sort of check in system for them similar to chat moderators in order to insure their activity. They will also be responsible for responding (when applicable) to posts and messages from followers on our pages. In order to be clear of who posted what, we can "sign" our wikia usernames at the bottom of our own posts. (Example post: There will be no chapter 790 this week! ~JapaneseOPfan). This is a concept many official community pages run by more than one user make use of.

Next, I'd like talk about content. Things we should post include:


 * series information (no chapter this week, guiness record, merch, etc.)


 * fun facts/trivia


 * anything related that is interesting (OP related: images, rants, thoughts, anything)


 * article releases (SBS, etc.)


 * project recruitment (i.e. We are currently working on a new project to create separate pages for each volume! Come over to the wikia if you want to help!)

Things I'd rather we not post include: ~etc. These all are in a series format (~of the week/month) that require us to stick to some sort of regular posting schedule. Not only is this a pain, but it's also going to all have to depend on the preferences of our social media crew, so all posts will be subjective/biased (unless we want to vote every week/month, which is just too much), and these things are also in danger of getting double posts (in other words, one person posts an "article of the week", then another person posts a different "article of the week" again during the same week without realizing it had already be done.. does that make sense?). We'll also eventually run out of options, and.. it's all just too much. I'd rather us stay away from the whole weekly/monthly series thing.
 * character birthdays
 * site news (open polls, new forum, new admin, etc.)
 * popular site events (like Blog Wars, a game of Cards Against Humanity with online wikia users, etc.)
 * podcasts
 * user of the month
 * blog of the week
 * article of the week

Finally, as mentioned, I think adding widgets to the main page (like Toriko wikia for instance) will be great once we get the pages going, but we'll probably need to clean our pages up a bit before that happens. I also don't really like our Twitter page name (@OnePieceWikia1... eh) so I'd like to request that to be changed to something a little more official-sounding (@opwikia for instance). 22:57, June 27, 2015 (UTC)

For the widgets, you may want to read Help:Social media integration.

Ah, as a side note, if we do widgets, we should only do one for Twitter if we connect our Twitter account to our Facebook account. Just looks cleaner. 23:53, June 27, 2015 (UTC)

I would personally prefer Facebook and Twitter to separate and have their own identity. 23:57, June 27, 2015 (UTC)

I like this idea, though I'd add the review blogs to the list. I'm sure people would love to have access to a discussion section like that where 80% of the comments aren't about GODA *cough*Kissmanga*cough*.--Xilinoc (talk) 00:00, June 28, 2015 (UTC)

Will we really be able to give Facebook and Twitter separate identities? Tumblr being in the discussion already makes things tougher. 00:09, June 28, 2015 (UTC)

Abandon Tumblr, no one cares about that. 02:09, June 29, 2015 (UTC)

Uhh, quick roll call just to keep track- anyone actually interested in taking part of the wikia social media project (so posting on our social media), speak up now? For the record, I am. I just feel like we should have a decent crew for this, not just one or 2 people. 02:31, June 29, 2015 (UTC)

I can help out, seeing how I pretty much started this. 02:35, June 29, 2015 (UTC)

I can help out (on FB, as I don't have Twitter) 02:39, June 29, 2015 (UTC)

So I checked who are the admins of the accounts and here's the list


 * Facebook admins- Kuro, JSD, Rici, Ryu, and DP


 * Twitter admins- Kage, Jopie, Jade


 * Tumblr admins- Ryu and Jade

We should decide what to do with the Tumblr account, if we want to delete it or keep it. Personally, I don't really care either way, but I'm leaning to deleting the tumblr account. 02:55, June 29, 2015 (UTC)

Heads up: I changed the twitter page username from @OnePieceWikia1 to @opwikia, and the name to OnePieceEncyclopedia. 04:16, June 29, 2015 (UTC)

Just an idea for the future, would be cool if we will make some interlanguage post/project like "you can read this article in # languages! Here's the the differences:.... " something like SBS Volume 26 did... I know that EN, CA, DE, IT wikis have a FB page, so we may join and do something together. Just an idea for the future, I don't really know what we can do though. For now just get things started with your pages.

That'd be great for the various wikis to do something together! But yeah, we should just focus on reviving our accounts for now. And we should decide what to do with the tumblr account, whether we want to abandon it for now, or not. 20:49, June 29, 2015 (UTC)

I am interested in joining the social media project. As for the tumblr account, I would suggest using it for a short while then maybe discuss what to do with it next. 13:11, July 2, 2015 (UTC)

I'm a bit busy now and can't deal with this myself, but maybe it's time to make some subsections or new tabs for this forum and discuss each social media platform separately? It's getting hard to keep track of what people want for which platform. 04:52, July 5, 2015 (UTC)

Facebook
Users who currently have access to our Facebook page are User:DancePowderer, User:JustSomeDude..., User:KuroAshi98, User:Ryuzakiforever, and User:Ricizubi. Until now, the one who has been posting most of the content on this page was User:Jaimini626, but he recently "retired" and no longer has access to the Facebook page. Though Rici has not made any official statements about retiring from our Facebook crew, he has also stated before that he has "retired" from the wikia itself, and his current status is yet to be confirmed. 01:56, July 6, 2015 (UTC)

DP isn't an admin anymore. 02:12, July 6, 2015 (UTC)

Twitter
Users who currently have access to our Twitter account include User:Awaikage, User:JapaneseOPfan, and User:Jademing. Jai also used to run this page basically by himself, but he has retired (though he still technically has password access to the page) and the account is currently mildly active with occasional posts by the current Twitter crew. 01:56, July 6, 2015 (UTC)

Tumblr
The only users who currently have access to our Tumblr page are User:Jademing and User:Ryuzakiforever. So far, Jade has been posting most of the content on the page. 01:56, July 6, 2015 (UTC)