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Managing the Odia Wikipedia Facebook page
4 min readJan 1, 2020
I have been given the responsibility to manage the Odia Wikipedia Facebook page back in April 2019; actually, I asked for that.
It had around 4600 likes, few posts here and there.
My main task was to gain attention from the people that WE EXIST. People do not know what is Wikipedia and on top of Odia Wikipedia, not heard in a million.
As Wikipedia is a non-profit organization which runs on volunteers, the end goal is to seek help from the community through various social media platforms. These are a few steps I have been doing to gain more user engagement and attention from our own Odia people.
Do’s
- Put the important stuff first to gain attention.
It is said that the human being has got a few seconds of attention span. The important stuff needs to be mentioned first to keep the attention/scroll bar intact. - Post regularly
Regular posts gain the traffic set the momentum and keeps the traffic coming. It slowly becomes a miniature habit of people. - Add a photo to the post
As they say a picture is more than a thousand words. Adding a photo increases the chances of being noticed too many folds. - Post just or during the peak User time period
Facebook shows the active users peak time period on its…