On Saturday 23 November 2002 12:39 pm, Tom Parmenter wrote:

I'm resurrecting this feature request from [[Wikipedia:Village pump]] where it is discussed under "Wikipedia Evangelism".

The point raised was the desirability of an easy way to ask a friend to comment on the accuracy of an article, or simply to point out an interesting article to someone.

How about doing what a lot of news pages do? Add a box at the bottom of each article

[] Send this article to a friend

along with a java mailer to fire the message off and a text box to add a note. Having a linked mailer would eliminate the necessity of firing up a mail program.

This would be a most cool feature. Of course, it would only be available to logged-in users that have valid email addresses set-up in their preferences.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

Opps! I forgot to add a diff to a list response to JHK to wikiEN-L. Here are a couple of substantial edits to pay for this mailing list post and the JHK one; http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Niobium/Temp&diff=0&oldi... http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Jimmy_Doolittle&diff=0&o...