There's already several MediaWiki extensions that do this exactly.

1) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailArticle 2) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis

Both come to mind off the top of my head. It's just a matter of getting local community approval and filing the request in Bugzilla for a sysadmin to activate the extension for you.

-Chad

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

This is a forwarded suggestion from a user in China, who preferred to remain anonymous.

Wikipedia could be promoted in China by placing a promotion toolbar at the bottom of articles, with links like "Copy to clipboard", "blog it", or "email it". This visual cue would actively remind the visitor further disseminate the Wikipedia content he's seen to his friends, via his blog (one-to-many outlet) or email (one-to-one outlet).

-- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)

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