[Commons-l] Add this at Commons

Erik Moeller erik at wikimedia.org
Wed Aug 25 18:29:17 UTC 2010


2010/8/25 Maarten Dammers <maarten at mdammers.nl>:
> Hi guys,
>
> I keep coming across http://www.addthis.com/ . It's an easy way to share
> things on allmost 300 websites.

As a point of information, embedding a widget like this as-is would be
a violation of our privacy policy because it would send information to
a third party on every pageview. The "Social bookmarks" template in
use on Wikinews works around this by hosting site icons locally:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Social_bookmarks
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Erik Möller
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