[Foundation-l] Sharing Wikimedia pages on Facebook, etc.

[Chen Minqi]

I think those links must not be added since it is somehow a form of
advertising for sites like digg or facebook, IMHO. Those who are really
interested in this and really need this should write a JavaScript to allow
such links to be added.

User:Bencmq


On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> e2009/2/6 Halvor <a22112216 at yahoo.com>:
> > There was a discussion at the Village Pump on en-wikipedia a year ago
> about implementing the rather familiar link sharing options that more and
> more websites have installed in order to increase readership.Typically this
> would show as:
> >
> > Save to del.icio.us • Share on Facebook • Digg This! • outside.in:
> > geotag this story • Discuss on Newsvine • Stumble It! • Sphere: Related
> > Content • Add to del.icio.us.
>
> I don't see how things like Digg are useful for an encyclopaedia.
> Aren't they more for topical stuff? The only thing you really need to
> share a page is to copy and paste the URL into an email, people can do
> that without our help.
>
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