Le 2013-04-18 14:42, Thomas Morton a écrit :
Those said, I
don't use Twitter in the first place, so I really
have no
idea what
kind of gap you would like to fill with your feature.
*rolls eyes*
Sorry, I don't mean to be snippy but this discussion always
frustrates me.
It's the sort of elitest tech snobbery (anti-social-networks, lack
of
understanding of how 90% of the world use the web, etc.) we suffer
from.
All appologies, while I for sure have a tech background, I didn't
meant to
sound elitist. On the contrary, I'm asking you to explain me what is
the
obvious need that you hope to fill with such a feature and that
couldn't be
achieved within Wikimedia,
What would it achieve? Well, people share content all over the web to
their
network; Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, etc. Facilitating this
is
obvious The reason it hasn't happened yet is that the editing
community
seems generally politically against the idea of social networks, so
anything relating to them is evil! ;)
Ok, but what I don't understand is what prevent them to share links to
Wikimedia projects?
Why should be only be building and sharing content
within Wikimedia?
The
vast majority of the consumers of the site could not care one thing
about
"within Wikimedia", and that is fine. Foisting it upon them is the
poor
approach :D
I agree. However if people are intending to give feed back on the page,
especialy feedback which would be useful to improve it, I think it would
be far better to keep this comments within the Wikimedia echosystem.
espcecialy
with the coming Echo extension.
I'm not sure how the Echo extension is relevant to sharing Wikipedia
content as widely as possible. It's an internal notification system.
:S I'd
be *very *disappointed to see us build a system for sharing content
internally (which is what you appear to be advocating), that is not
our
purpose (to be a social network).
Ok, it seems to me that I am really misunderstanding what you are
talking about.
See above; are you really suggesting that no one
should be sharing
content
outside of Mediawiki?? ;)
Of course not, it looks like I just don't understand what are the
barriers that seems to annoy you.
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