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4k followers on Tumblr… That's a lot! posted on 29 May 2015 19:56 by Blaroth

We hit 4k followers on Tumblr last night! And that is a LOT for tumblr! Nice work, tumbles team!

^{Click to edit: 4k followers on Tumblr... That's a lot!} ^{(Updated on 29 May 2015 19:56 by Blaroth)}

Translated Article Policy on SCP International posted on 23 May 2015 07:02 by Decibelles

http://scp-international.wikidot.com/forum/t-1212010/continuing-the-discussion-for-translated-articles-on-the-mai

I started a discussion here. If you have thoughts you wish to contribute to this, please feel free to do so.

^{Click to edit: Translated Article Policy on SCP International} ^{(Updated on 23 May 2015 07:02 by Decibelles)}

10K LIKES WOOOO posted on 15 May 2015 23:12 by Roget

The facebook page has hit 10,000 likes!

*pops champagne*

Good job guys! I thought we wouldn't hit this until August, but we've really done a good job of being on top of posting and interacting with fans. Let's keep up the good growth!

^{Click to edit: 10K LIKES WOOOO} ^{(Updated on 15 May 2015 23:12 by Roget)}

Wikipedia DYK Results posted on 15 May 2015 11:23 by Roget

Another message(Bolding is me)

They recently updated the article view count on Wikipedia, and I thought you’d be interested in how many page views the SCP Foundation article got from the DYK. The article received 5,191 views on May 12 and 6,892 views on May 13 for a grand total of 12,083 views. When the article was first created, it got around 2,000 views from site members over the course of two days, so I estimate that over 10,000 people who aren’t members of the SCP community read over the article thanks to the DYK. This was the most viewed DYK I’ve ever written, and I’m happy to announce that it was viewed enough to make it into the DYK page view leaders by month for May of 2015. Its entry, as well as the stats I listed, can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Statistics#May_2015

My next goal for this article is to ultimately promote it to Good Article status (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles), and I’ll continue to work on and expand it as more sources are released. This is probably going to take a while, and unfortunately there’s nothing else exciting I can do with the article until it gets promoted. It’s been great working with you and Vince, and I’m sure we’ll be in contact in the future.

How awesome is that?

^{Click to edit: Wikipedia DYK Results} ^{(Updated on 15 May 2015 11:23 by Roget)}

Wikipedia DYK posted on 11 May 2015 01:33 by Roget

Just got this PM from SpiritOfEagle:

Roget,

I have some very good news. After nearly a month in review, the DYK for the SCP Foundation has been approved and is currently in workshop (which is where approved DYK hooks are assembled into the blocks that appear on the front page) . It will be on the main page for 12 hours, and it currently looks like its time slot will start on May 12 at 14:53 UTC (10:53 AM Eastern Time)*. I'm very excited about this, and am hoping that it results in numerous page views.

-Spirit of Eagle

*It may shift slightly after it gets moved into the formal queue.

I'm pretty excited for this.

Excitement is shared. Is there anything we should do to prepare for an influx of newcomers, or is that unlikely at this point?

_{Also, what are the formal steps a guy could follow to create a Spanish page for the SCP Foundation? Just saying, I'd be willing to write it and add a subsection on the SCP-ES for good measure.}

:3 - Reach

^{Click to edit: Wikipedia DYK} ^{(Updated on 11 May 2015 08:43 by Dr Reach)}

SCP DA group - Moved posted on 29 Apr 2015 17:05 by Blaroth

Our DA group has moved from site-77 to http://scp-foundation.deviantart.com/

This decision came after the owner of the SCP-Foundation group offered their group to us. We could not decide what to do with both groups, so we're shutting down 77 and focusing on the bigger, more established SCP-Foundation. As said, it is more established and has been around for 3 years. There was no way I was going to let them shut it down.

The original owner has passed ownership to me, but we've kept on all the staff from that group (Including original owner) to help us keep the machine well oiled.

Site-77 will be deleted in 5 days. Members of 77 have been informed of it's deletion.

^{Click to edit: SCP DA group - Moved} ^{(Updated on 29 Apr 2015 17:05 by Blaroth)}

SCP Italian posted on 09 Apr 2015 19:50 by DrClef

http://fondazionescp.wikidot.com/

They seem to mostly be doing translations, but haven't really gotten that far off the ground yet. Any chance that we could talk to SCP International and have them do a bit of outreach and support? -Clef

Based off of their recent changes, they seem to just barely be active. The links off to the side make me wonder if they're translating us more for a creepy pasta site than for the sake of the Foundation itself.

Roget, do you know of anyone on SCP-I that knows Italian? If not, I can dig up my Cousin Vinnie have a few friends who might be able to help. -TroyL

I threw a few people their way in the past, but they never got effectively used. Dr. Leonard and one or two people I can't remember off the top of my head.

All right. Let's just keep an eye on them: no point fretting about it if there's not much interest in receiving help.

^{Click to edit: SCP Italian} ^{(Updated on 13 Apr 2015 18:23 by DrClef)}

SCP Reddit posted on 09 Apr 2015 17:12 by DrClef

So I've noticed that the SCP Reddit's "Tale of the week" has been "Don Ferreiro's Lie-Katana" for, like, months now.

Any plans to update it? If not we should probably cancel that idea and remove the link.

- Clef

SCP Of The Week and its art was done by /u/Nivek12 for pretty much ever, he seems to have stopped redditing. I can't commit the time to artwork but I am updating it weekly now.

-bluesoul

^{Click to edit: SCP Reddit} ^{(Updated on 13 Jun 2015 04:53 by pxdnbluesoul)}

And I'm here posted on 03 Apr 2015 20:07 by DrClef

Dr. Clef here. I've been made the primary contact for Internet Outreach. Getting caught up with how things are going here.

Things are going well. We just got a Wikipedia entry, and the social media sites are regularly hitting milestones. Recently, we've been discussing expanding to other media sites, like YouTube, and trying to expand on our relationships with content creators.

- CLEF: Got it. Do we have a list of who has the login information for our various social media sites? I'd like to make sure that everyone has at least one backup, in case of vacation or emergency. Aside from that, you guys are doing great. Have fun interacting with your communities: I think that's the most important thing.

Roth: Find Roget or myself for that information. I'm pretty sure only twitter needs login information for each individual person due to there being no admin (Add this person to admin) functions. Tumblr, DA, facebook and reddit all have admin functions, thus allowing us to access them from our own personal accounts when we want to. If you want a list of who is on where, hit up Roget.

^{Click to edit: And I'm here} ^{(Updated on 04 Apr 2015 20:39 by Blaroth)}

Wikipedia Page is GO!!!! posted on 25 Mar 2015 18:31 by Roget

After quite some time of working with Spirit Of Eagle, I am happy to announce that the SCP Foundation Wikipedia page has been approved, and is now up for good!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation

This has been a long effort, and I am extremely happy to report that at long last, this long-term goal of the Outreach team has been achieved. I want to give special thanks to Spirit of Eagle, for sticking with us and working with me even when people didn't understand what he was trying to do for us, and TroyL for giving us the support we needed to get this done. I'm very happy with how this came out, and I encourage everyone to check out the page and be thrilled with me.

^{Click to edit: Wikipedia Page is GO!!!!} ^{(Updated on 25 Mar 2015 18:31 by Roget)}

tumblr theme posted on 23 Mar 2015 21:28 by Roget

Roth has purchased a tumblr theme which allows users to share our posts on other sites like Facebook and Twitter. It's pretty good, so I'm hoping it can help the tumblr page grow that much faster.

^{Click to edit: tumblr theme} ^{(Updated on 23 Mar 2015 21:28 by Roget)}

TUMBLR FOLLOWERS posted on 17 Mar 2015 02:26 by Roget

We've officially hit 3000 followers on tumblr!!!

Big congrats to roth, Fantem and Soulless for their excellent work on the tumblr. This is a terrific milestone and such.

This is awesome news. I'm really glad to hear that you guys have done such an amazing job maintaining and working with the Tumblr followers. I know Roth especially has been doing a lot of work over there, and I want you to know how much we appreciate everything you've done. Great work. -TroyL

^{Click to edit: TUMBLR FOLLOWERS} ^{(Updated on 17 Mar 2015 21:34 by TroyL)}

Deviantart hub page. posted on 06 Mar 2015 18:47 by Blaroth

It has occurred to me that we do not have a huge presence in the one place where we have A LOT of fans and amazing fan art.

Deviantart.

Getting this more known will allow our fan artists on DA to get in touch easily. We will be able to answer any of their questions/concerns properly from here too as well as show off anything they might put forwards to us.

With this, we will easily be able to track artists submitting anything and ask them for their permission to upload their art to our other sites (FB/Tumblr)

- DA group live: http://site-77.deviantart.com/

If any member of the IO team wishes to help admin this group, please contact Blaroth on site PMs for a chat.

^{Click to edit: Deviantart hub page.} ^{(Updated on 06 Mar 2015 21:41 by Blaroth)}

Easy fan art access posted on 03 Mar 2015 23:19 by Blaroth

This report is for the use of fan art/images/media ect for the IO team to take and feature. All the original artists of these images have given us permission to upload their fan art to tumblr and facebook.

Try not to double post them. I will get rid of old links every now and then and provide new ones.

Link to fan arts. We are using my sandbox til I find a better place. Second tab, internet outreach use only.

http://scpsandbox2.wikidot.com/blaroth

Off I go to find more amazing people~

^{Click to edit: Easy fan art access} ^{(Updated on 03 Mar 2015 23:27 by Blaroth)}

Wikipedia Contact Get! *insert fanfare* posted on 05 Feb 2015 01:05 by Vincent_Redgrave

Hey guys,

IO has been in contact with an editor on Wikipedia, Spirit of Eagle, who's an experienced contributor to that site, and is willing to be a foot in the door there. They want to work with everyone on finding sources and getting the site up to WP's Notability standards. They've also agreed to work with everyone to get the potential article itself up to the site's standard of quality and how we wish to be portrayed on Wikipedia.

I need to ask a huge favor of y'all, though. If they come in again with another draft, please ding a member of IO to communicate with them, or otherwise be patient with them and help them out. Y'all know how to reach me fairly easily. I've been told that the article they shared wasn't quite up to quality standards and a bit of a blowout occurred the last time they were in chat. I'm hoping to put this behind us (and SoE's expressed similar sentiments) and I want to move forward with getting us on the map. This is a big step, y'all, and having a foot (or extra foot, even) in the door can really help us.

^{Click to edit: Wikipedia Contact Get! *insert fanfare*} ^{(Updated on 05 Feb 2015 03:02 by Vincent_Redgrave)}

Adding one person posted on 01 Dec 2014 22:23 by Roget

Rhett's being added up to the tumblr page, to help out and give some additional oversight of what goes on there. That brings the active tumblr staffs to 3, with Roth and Soulless being the other two.

^{Click to edit: Adding one person} ^{(Updated on 01 Dec 2014 22:23 by Roget)}

Twitter Inactivity posted on 28 Aug 2014 18:16 by pxdnbluesoul

The Twitter account hadn't been updated in a little over two months and we couldn't track down who was managing it. I know it was Gaffney and Rumetzen but nobody even remembered the password out of the people I could track down. So I reset the password to the account and I'll be managing it for the foreseeable future. Roget has left me on as an analyst to the Facebook page's metrics but I will not be posting there anymore.

Thanks for taking over this one, bluesoul. The twitter was kicked around from person to person, and never really got the attention that the facebook/tumblr/etc. pages got. - Roget

^{Click to edit: Twitter Inactivity} ^{(Updated on 31 Aug 2014 15:19 by Roget)}

Survey posted on 23 Apr 2014 01:20 by Roget

So, staff have been thinking about doing a survey through our social media outlets. What do we want to do? Collecting the data for this would be a pretty big project, so I'm probably going to lay out a plan for collecting data and such, but for now I just want to hear any ideas any team member has on this topic.

Drewbear:
I went ahead and made a quick one with ESurveyPro, which is the site that we used for the Heritage Collection poll. I can trigger it as open to the public at any time. Overview of the questions:

Gender (menu)
Age (menu)
Primary Language (menu, including an "other" option)
Country of Residence (menu, including an "other" option)
How'd you find us (radio buttons, including an "other" field)
Which of the officially recognized sites/outreach do you follow (checkboxes)
How do you engage in the community. I.e. read articles only, write, draw fanart, other, etc. (checkboxes)
"If you could change ONE thing about the wiki, what would it be?" (text field)
"Do you have any thoughts or concerns about the direction the wiki is taking?" (text field)
"What do you think about Staff and the job they're doing, individually or as a whole?" (text field)

Totally anonymous response, analytics that can be exported as a .pdf, can trigger or close it at any time. I have NOT opened it yet, pending input from other Staff

Drewbear:
Got feedback from a ton of people in SSSC, including 3 other Admins and a significant slice of Mods. Survey was slightly tweaked based on input, and is now live: http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=b2d25582-7e56-4327-9532-c8445ad7a321 and shortened to http://scp.so/su

Close date is May 10 at midnight GMT, although this can be changed if necessary. Once the poll is closed, I'll port over the data.

Outreach has posted to all social media sites. Kudos to them for doing a quick and efficient job~! - Roget

Drewbear: Vlank reached out to me and asked whether the non-English sites could/should post the survey to their userbases, and whether that would distort the data. Since we're already getting a significant number of people responding that English is not their primary language, and a good number who state that they read/use the non-English wikis, I told Vlank to go ahead and let their people know. I also said that since the last 3 questions (the free form feedback ones) were originally geared towards the English wiki, to let their people know to put "Spanish:" or "Korean:" or whatever first, if they wanted to discuss the wiki or staff for that language only. I'll send any such responses to the appropriate wiki.

So yeah, let the non-English wikis know that the survey is open to their people too.

Deployed a mass pm to all of the international folks. - Roget

Drewbear: Survey is closed and data is in. Roget is leading the team analyzing it, we hope to get done in a week or two.

^{Click to edit: Survey} ^{(Updated on 13 May 2014 02:26 by Drewbear)}

Tumblr posted on 23 Apr 2014 01:19 by Roget

As you've all probably noticed, I've left this team more or less to its own devices, because we've more or less been able to do what we do without much in the way of extra projects. However, I've noticed that the tumblr page has not been being updated regularly. I think this page was done by ghostchibi and scantron, both of whom are not currently available to give excess time to the site. So, does anybody want to take over or help out on it?
I'd also like to note that I thought I might have to say this about the facebook and twitter pages too, but those seem to have resumed pretty decent activity levels, so lets keep the pace up on those outlets.

- Rog

^{Click to edit: Tumblr} ^{(Updated on 23 Apr 2014 01:19 by Roget)}

Request posted on 11 Feb 2014 05:06 by DrClef

Can we put the official Tumblr, Facebook, TWitter, etc. on the front page, along with SCP International?

I'm not part of the IO Team, but I see no reason why we wouldn't do this. Directly above the SCP International block, perhaps? —Drewbear

I've been meaning to ask one of our image-maker golks to draw up some logos for such a thing. I'll get this tossed up once we have those. — Roget

Get in touch with Aelanna, but this seems like a reasonable request (and not a bad idea, honestly). — TroyL

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