New subject: [Ticket#2007122810012695] E-mail this article

5 Jan 2008

[[LIST MODERATOR:PLEASE EDIT OUT ANDREW'S EMAIL ADDRESS]]

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for your mail.

Your email was passed around and there's some Wikinewsies working on how can
we have the email an article feature - although it is likely to be an ugly
javascript hack that activates the feature in your browser. Email this page is
- as far as I know - a feature in every browser, but one of the last things
you'd think of. People are now used to websites making this easy. We should
too, so you were right to email us.

I've copied this response on to the wikinews mailing list where the
aforementioned people who might can do this are. Fingers crossed we can get
something to make life simple.

In any case, it's great to see someone taking the Wikinews coverage as
something they'd like to mail on. We strive to be neutral in our coverage and
do well balanced reports. We don't have enough people on the project to cover
every issue and sometimes our front page can look odd because of people
covering what interests them. I'd like to take this opportunity to invite you
to get involved. It can be as much or as little as you want. Correct
grammatical errors, change passive voice to active, or be really bold and
start your own articles. Wikinews tries to be a welcoming international
community and we have editors all over the world. For obvious reasons the
English project is among the most active, but French, German, and Chinese
projects also manage a respectable article count. What makes me smile is when
we have coverage in multiple languages; we certainly aren't as organised as
Wikipedia is with that, but we try.

Again, thank you for contacting us, we really should publicise this email
address more.

"Christ, Andrew (AV)" <xxx@xxx> wrote:

...
  Brian,

 I wanted to send the article about the burial of the woman leader in
 Pakistan who was assassinated. 

 After I sent that e-mail, I can understand why Wikinews wouldn't want an
 'e-mail article' button. It's one of the ways I keep in touch with a
 friend. Some people will want to know whether Wikinews uses the info
 about which articles get sent in their decisions as to which articles to
 write. Wikinews wouldn't be able to prove that the info isn't used in
 making such decisions. I had forgotten about my browser's 'e-mail page'
 feature.

 Andy

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Wikinews Information Team [mailto:wikinews@wikimedia.org] 
 Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 9:25 AM
 To: Christ, Andrew (AV)
 Subject: Re: [Ticket#2007122810012695] E-mail this article

 Dear Christ Andrew,

 Thank you for your mail.

 "Christ, Andrew (AV)" <xxx@xxx> wrote:

  Please consider adding a button to your news
articles. By clicking the
 button, a reader may type in an e-mail address of a friend and send  the
  news article to them. Thank you.  
 Andrew, looks like you'll get your wish. One of our Serbian contributors
 who
 is more technical than me is working on some code so we can have a "mail
 this
 page" link in the left-hand sidebar.

 Out of curiosity, can you say which specific article you figured you had
 to
 mail on? Just want to know some more about what makes our readers want
 to do
 more than just read.

 Yours sincerely,
 Brian McNeil

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Yours sincerely,
Brian McNeil

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