I've received a suggestion to the Wikinews OTR queue.
Basically the idea is to have an "email this story" link somewhere that pops up a box to enter recipient email address.
Is this feasible? I.e. can we have it launch their mail client with at least a link to the story in it?
Brian McNeil
Brian McNeil wrote:
I’ve received a suggestion to the Wikinews OTR queue.
Basically the idea is to have an “email this story” link somewhere that pops up a box to enter recipient email address.
Is this feasible? I.e. can we have it launch their mail client with at least a link to the story in it?
Brian McNeil
Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
It sure is feasible. Use the "mailto" protocol - RTFM, it's far too early for me to remember such syntax.
~ Paul W ~ skenmy
Thats a good idea...along with print this story or share this story.
Jason
Brian McNeil wrote:
I’ve received a suggestion to the Wikinews OTR queue.
Basically the idea is to have an “email this story” link somewhere that pops up a box to enter recipient email address.
Is this feasible? I.e. can we have it launch their mail client with at least a link to the story in it?
Brian McNeil
Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
On 12/29/07, Paul Williams paul@skenmy.com wrote:
It sure is feasible. Use the "mailto" protocol - RTFM, it's far too early for me to remember such syntax.
<a href="mailto:yourfriend@example.com?subject=Subject&body=One paragraph.%0A%0ANext paragraph.">send it!</a>
But I am not sure how to add it (i.e. what is needed level of intervention to the site's code)...
Milos Rancic wrote:
On 12/29/07, Paul Williams paul@skenmy.com wrote:
It sure is feasible. Use the "mailto" protocol - RTFM, it's far too early for me to remember such syntax.
<a href="mailto:yourfriend@example.com?subject=Subject&body=One paragraph.%0A%0ANext paragraph.">send it!</a>
But I am not sure how to add it (i.e. what is needed level of intervention to the site's code)...
Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
In wiki-markup it should be [mailto:yourfriend@example.com?subject=Subject&body=One%20paragraph.%0A%0ANext%20paragraph. Mail this story!] - but i'm not sure how well it will deal with the complexity of the tag.
~ Paul W ~ skenmy
There's a MediaWiki extensions called "ShareThis" which adds links to post stories on Digg, Techoranti (sp?), and Slashdot, among other places. [1]
Secondly, there is also a Send2Friend extension. We could ask the devs to install it on testwiki to see what it does, and if we like it, we can install on en.wn [2]
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Send2Friend
-- Thunderhead http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Thunderhead http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thunderhead
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---- Paul Williams paul@skenmy.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
On 12/29/07, Paul Williams paul@skenmy.com wrote:
It sure is feasible. Use the "mailto" protocol - RTFM, it's far too early for me to remember such syntax.
<a href="mailto:yourfriend@example.com?subject=Subject&body=One paragraph.%0A%0ANext paragraph.">send it!</a>
But I am not sure how to add it (i.e. what is needed level of intervention to the site's code)...
Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
In wiki-markup it should be [mailto:yourfriend@example.com?subject=Subject&body=One%20paragraph.%0A%0ANext%20paragraph. Mail this story!] - but i'm not sure how well it will deal with the complexity of the tag.
~ Paul W ~ skenmy
As I commented on the OTRS ticket itself, I don't think we want to try a MediaWiki-related approach here. The developers don't seem to like it: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227 However, the wiki-based options discussed here are probably fine.
On Dec 29, 2007 8:46 PM, Thunderhead wm-thunderhead@charter.net wrote:
There's a MediaWiki extensions called "ShareThis" which adds links to post stories on Digg, Techoranti (sp?), and Slashdot, among other places. [1]
Secondly, there is also a Send2Friend extension. We could ask the devs to install it on testwiki to see what it does, and if we like it, we can install on en.wn [2]
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Send2Friend
-- Thunderhead http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Thunderhead http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thunderhead
DISCLAIMER: I hold no official position in the Wikimedia Foundation. This message expresses the views of a single Wikimedia user and not necessarily the community at large.
---- Paul Williams paul@skenmy.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
On 12/29/07, Paul Williams paul@skenmy.com wrote:
It sure is feasible. Use the "mailto" protocol - RTFM, it's far too early for me to remember such syntax.
<a href="mailto:yourfriend@example.com?subject=Subject&body=One paragraph.%0A%0ANext paragraph.">send it!</a>
But I am not sure how to add it (i.e. what is needed level of intervention to the site's code)...
Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
In wiki-markup it should be [mailto:yourfriend@example.com?subject=Subject&body=One%20paragraph.%0A%0ANext%20paragraph. Mail this story!] - but i'm not sure how well it will deal with the complexity of the tag.
~ Paul W ~ skenmy
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Hi people,
I've requested a friend of mine (namely [[:w:pl:user:Beau|Beau]]) to create a JS script that will add such[1] link to the "toolbox" box. He's already written it, but it is currently being tested on en wikinews. I'll post here a message when it's done.
== Footnotes == [1] Saying "such" I mean a link "E-mail this page': mailto:put-your-friend's-email-here, topic:"oh, I see a great article on en.wikinews.org -- have a look!" and body 'hey dude, there's a great article on the English Wikinews, see "here-goes-the-link" for more."
Cheers,
30-12-07, odder wrote:
I'll post here a message when it's done.
Looks like it's working. It surely works under Mozilla Firefox, I don't know how about other browsers. If anybody could please test it under Opera/IE/Konqueror/Safari/etc., and post the results here on the list, it will be great.
The code is available on: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Odder/monobook.js
Hope you'll like it.
Cheers,
On Dec 30, 2007 7:48 AM, odder odder.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
30-12-07, odder wrote:
I'll post here a message when it's done.
Looks like it's working. It surely works under Mozilla Firefox, I don't know how about other browsers. If anybody could please test it under Opera/IE/Konqueror/Safari/etc., and post the results here on the list, it will be great.
The code is available on: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Odder/monobook.js
Hope you'll like it.
Cheers,
Tomasz W. Kozłowski a.k.a. [[user:odder]] _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
I tested it in IE and it works.
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