Turkish Defence Wikipedia Project

[Pax Ottomana]

It's very mind-boggling to me as to why some management members, marketing directors or even regular employees from Aselsan, TAI, Roketsan, Havelsan, Otokar, FNSS, etc etc don't take a few f---ing minutes and create/update Wikipedia articles for their own products? Don't they know that Wikipedia is the world's 5th most visited website? That it is always among the top search results? All Western companies have specialized teams that do this kind of work.

Yes, we now produce some good stuff. But as usual, Turks again fail at the very thing we always fail... Marketing, Propaganda and Public Relations.

 

[Khagan1923]

It's very mind-boggling to me as to why some management members, marketing directors or even regular employees from Aselsan, TAI, Roketsan, Havelsan, Otokar, FNSS, etc etc don't take a few f---ing minutes and create/update Wikipedia articles for their own products? Don't they know that Wikipedia is the world's 5th most visited website? That it is always among the top search results? All Western companies have specialized teams that do this kind of work.

Yes, we now produce some good stuff. But as usual, Turks again fail at the very thing we always fail... Marketing, Propaganda and Public Relations.

What do you expect? Our country (Firms, Armed Forces and State) has much to catch up on Social Media, PR and Propaganda. Our Armed Forces only started Social Media Accounts (Instagram,Twitter and so on) this year! And I'm not even sure if all branches have opened accounts or only Jandarma. The Brits,French,American, Russians and Germans have even S.M Accounts for their Ships in the Navy. Our people have much to learn and catchin up to do.

We have to invest heavily into these departments. Recruit people just for this job. Follow our Sailors, Soldiers and Pilots with cameras around, show detailed exercised. Follow Rectruits until their gradutation. This is how you build a hype around being in the Army so people want to join. Buy GoPros so soldiers who see actions can film it all and release it if there were no casualties after a couple months in FHD. The German Bundeswehr has a Video Series where they follow their soldiers in Mali. We need thinks like this. Debunk easily pkk propaganda. This is how you take actions against the propaganda the pkk spreads by being transparent. Open a Twitter and Instagram Account for the TCG Anadolu and our I-Frigates. Later TF-2000 Destroyers. Also make a video series about the NATO operations we take part in.

 

[Pax Ottomana]

What do you expect? Our country (Firms, Armed Forces and State) has much to catch up on Social Media, PR and Propaganda. Our Armed Forces only started Social Media Accounts (Instagram,Twitter and so on) this year! And I'm not even sure if all branches have opened accounts or only Jandarma. The Brits,French,American, Russians and Germans have even S.M Accounts for their Ships in the Navy. Our people have much to learn and catchin up to do.
Totally agreed. I hope some high level officers in the TSK and our Defense Ministry also come to this understanding. And do so soon!

We have to invest heavily into these departments. Recruit people just for this job. Follow our Sailors, Soldiers and Pilots with cameras around, show detailed exercised. Follow Rectruits until their gradutation. This is how you build a hype around being in the Army so people want to join. Buy GoPros so soldiers who see actions can film it all and release it if there were no casualties after a couple months in FHD. The German Bundeswehr has a Video Series where they follow their soldiers in Mali. We need thinks like this. Debunk easily pkk propaganda. This is how you take actions against the propaganda the pkk spreads by being transparent. Open a Twitter and Instagram Account for the TCG Anadolu and our I-Frigates. Later TF-2000 Destroyers. Also make a video series about the NATO operations we take part in.

Totally agreed. I hope that high level officers of the TSK and our Ministry of Defense also come to this understanding. And do so soon!

 

[what]

My German knowledge is very well. I can translate your texts into German if you want to. If I recall correctly,
@what also speaks German.

Yes I speak German, the funny thing is there are more German articles on our defence projects then there are Turkish.

That would be perfect, except you can't publish that stuff on Wiki unless they publish it on their website first. (You need sources, you can't just claim you talked to the company). Which I am guessing they won't.

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Many people expressed their opinions on how this should be done. While they are all good ideas, no one has put together a concrete and practical way of doing this.
So I will lay out my suggestion here and you guys let me know what you think about it.
We need to start from somewhere. Let's start with the existing articles, instead of adding new ones. We will create new threads for every article (For example: Wikipedia Update Project: TAI ANKA). We will paste the whole wikipedia page into that thread. Then people will come along and suggest corrections by providing valid sources. Other people will then go and post those updates to Wikipedia. Each reply to the thread will bear a tag, for example replies consisting of suggestions will have to start with #Suggestion and replies that confirm that a given suggestion is uploaded to wikipedia will start with #Updated.
This way no one person will be overburdened. And everyone will get to contribute.
If you like this idea give me thumbs up. If I get 5 thanks I will start the thread for Anka, otherwise we will wait for other people with better ideas.

Note: Sorry for my obsession with Anka, it's just that Anka is my favorite product

I think thats a good way to start that way we'll get some experience before we create new ones.