Gentlemen, my mom, age 50 (hexadecimal) years old, thinks wikis ought to have "send this article to a friend" buttons like normal websites do. Indeed, the flagship Wikipedia site lacks such basic equipment last time I looked.
I would have told her "just send them the URL yourself, for that personal touch", but since she's 120 (octal) years old, maybe it's time to take a tip from our elders and add such a feature, without me needing to do as much as even check to see if an extension already can do it.
If not a complete "Share (on FarceBook, etc.)", "Suggest" button, then at least a simple "mail to a friend".
"M" == Annette "Mom" Jacobson writes:
M> Excellent title. Thanks for fixing the typos, etc. I was thinking -- M> is it possible to put an ikon in this articles page for a "send to a M> friend" possibility? Most article blogs have one, and I always use M> them to help get articles I like around. The send 'aps' on the M> article's page are so simple to access and use. What do you think?
M> ----- Original Message ----- M> From: jidanni@jidanni.org M> To: Mom
OK, made http://abj.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Supporting_the_Syrian_uprisings
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:43 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Gentlemen, my mom, age 50 (hexadecimal) years old, thinks wikis ought to have "send this article to a friend" buttons like normal websites do. Indeed, the flagship Wikipedia site lacks such basic equipment last time I looked.
I would say no unless it could be implemented correctly and securely, there's nothing more annoying then spam being leveraged from sites that have "Send this page to a friend" boxes on them.
I like that send to a friend idea. I'll have to play around with how to implement that on my site. Hmm how about also a "post a link to this on my facebook page" ? =
On 04/28/2011 11:41 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
I like that send to a friend idea. I'll have to play around with how to implement that on my site. Hmm how about also a "post a link to this on my facebook page" ? =
On 04/28/2011 11:45 PM, Kilian wrote:
On 04/28/2011 11:41 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
I like that send to a friend idea. I'll have to play around with how to implement that on my site. Hmm how about also a "post a link to this on my facebook page" ? =
And http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Social_Bookmarking (pro: supports e-mail, uses AddThis, con: uses AddThis).
"K" == Kilian drehbuehne@texttheater.net writes:
K> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis K> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Social_Bookmarking Both look kind of dated. Wonder if they would work with SVN-1.18. Interesting how Facebook has lots of things that connect to Wikipedia, but Wikipedia doesn't have the reverse... but then Wikipedia is supposed to be neutral. Anyway, at least a 'share this page via email' button on Wikipedia might be warranted.
On 28/04/11 21:43, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Gentlemen, my mom, age 50 (hexadecimal) years old, thinks wikis ought to have "send this article to a friend" buttons like normal websites do. Indeed, the flagship Wikipedia site lacks such basic equipment last time I looked.
I would have told her "just send them the URL yourself, for that personal touch", but since she's 120 (octal) years old, maybe it's time to take a tip from our elders and add such a feature, without me needing to do as much as even check to see if an extension already can do it.
If not a complete "Share (on FarceBook, etc.)", "Suggest" button, then at least a simple "mail to a friend".
"M" == Annette "Mom" Jacobson writes:
M> Excellent title. Thanks for fixing the typos, etc. I was thinking -- M> is it possible to put an ikon in this articles page for a "send to a M> friend" possibility? Most article blogs have one, and I always use M> them to help get articles I like around. The send 'aps' on the M> article's page are so simple to access and use. What do you think?
M> ----- Original Message ----- M> From: jidanni@jidanni.org M> To: Mom
OK, made http://abj.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Supporting_the_Syrian_uprisings
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