Lars Aronsson wrote:
tarquin wrote:
Just a quick word -- any news on the idea to put a "send this article to a friend" link on every page?
Sounds like a perfect spamming machine! Go in anonymously, create a new page with your spam message, then have Wikipedia mail that to your "friend". And the next friend, and the next, ...
If only the link (page title) is mailed, create the page [[save big on ink cartridges]], and mail that.
hmmm. id not thought of that. but AFAIK spammers need to mail out thousands if not *millions* of emails for it to be effective. they're not going to bother doing it one at a time. secondly, we'd erase a page called [[save big on ink cartridges]] PDQ :-)
I think this would be a useful feature & could help us press-gang ... *cough* I mean invite new contributors ;-)