[Foundation-l] Promote Wikipedia in China using blog it/email it/etc

[Jerry~Yuyu]

Halo, I'm one of guys from WMHK

As somebody living near Mainland China, I think such thing is worth
trying......

but however, I think we need to consider a few more steps to cope with the
counter-measurement by the GFW authority....

because break through the blockage via blogs is not uncommon, many bloggers
use this way in this year's President election of R. of China (Taiwan). I'm
not sure this may brought any legal responsibilities to the blog hosting
services company. But I think it's better for us to check it out
first........



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> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:34:52 -0400
> From: Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Promote Wikipedia in China using blog
>        it/email        it/etc links
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> There's already several MediaWiki extensions that do this exactly.
>
> 1) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailArticle
> 2) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis
>
> Both come to mind off the top of my head. It's just a matter of getting
> local community approval and filing the request in Bugzilla for a sysadmin
> to activate the extension for you.
>
> -Chad
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
> <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >  This is a forwarded suggestion from a user in China, who preferred to
> >  remain anonymous.
> >
> >  Wikipedia could be promoted in China by placing a promotion toolbar at
> >  the bottom of articles, with links like "Copy to clipboard", "blog
> >  it", or "email it". This visual cue would actively remind the visitor
> >  further disseminate the Wikipedia content he's seen to his friends,
> >  via his blog (one-to-many outlet) or email (one-to-one outlet).
> >
> >  --
> >  Yours cordially,
> >  Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
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Yours Truly
Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~雨雨)

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