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Brian McNeil

29 Dec 2007 29 Dec '07

9:31 a.m.

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

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Paul Williams

29 Dec 29 Dec

9:33 a.m.

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(a)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

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Jason Safoutin

4:48 p.m.

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(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l

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Milos Rancic

8:51 p.m.

On 12/29/07, Paul Williams <paul(a)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)...

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Paul Williams

9:47 p.m.

Milos Rancic wrote:

On 12/29/07, Paul Williams <paul(a)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(a)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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Thunderhead

30 Dec 30 Dec

1:46 a.m.

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(a)skenmy.com> wrote:

Milos Rancic wrote:

On 12/29/07, Paul Williams <paul(a)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(a)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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Casey Brown

2:06 a.m.

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(a)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(a)skenmy.com> wrote:

Milos Rancic wrote:

On 12/29/07, Paul Williams <paul(a)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(a)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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odder

12:30 p.m.

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, -- Tomasz W. Kozłowski a.k.a. [[user:odder]]

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odder

12:48 p.m.

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]]

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FWN -

3:54 p.m.

On Dec 30, 2007 7:48 AM, odder <odder.wiki(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l

I tested it in IE and it works.

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Brian McNeil
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Paul Williams
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