"Carl (CBM)" <cbm.wikipedia at gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <mhershberger at wikimedia.org> wrote:
Posted this issue at http://hexm.de/8m.
The above link is to :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Does_Wik...
As of this morning, I count 21 "support" and 25 "oppose".
Part of the opposition was how I phrased it. Wikipedia obviously doesn't "need" a share button.
I also didn't make it clear that I didn't think we should or would use any one else's "share" button since that would allow them to track their users through Wikipedia. As a result, I didn't count the one opposition that seemed primarily concerned with the tracking issue.
Someone pointed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TheDJ/Sharebox and I tried it out, but it only worked after disabling the Firefox extension that I use to stop trackers. I'm glad TheDJ has made this available for those that want to use it, but I would like to get something else in place that doesn't share data with any intermediaries (such as AddThis.com) beyond the place that the user actually wants to share the page.
Mark.
Making a share this link box is really trivial. There are several implementations on different wikis (I wrote one at enwikinews - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Social_bookmarks . Commons used to have one with stockphoto.js. Not sure if they still use it, several other wikis do their own thing) The issue has always been if people actually want it, which I believe is one of those discussions that comes up over and over again on enwikipedia.
-bawolff