[Mediawiki-l] Feature: "Email this page"

[JTAutry]

Not sure what magic words work with each versions, but this external hyperlink works in 1.7.1:

[mailto:?subject=Check%20this%20page%20out&body=You%20might%20be%20interested%20in%20this%20web%20page:%20{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} Tell a friend]

Of course its still a bit sloppy not to have the email sent by the wiki's server, but still, it works right NOW! :)

Taylor


----- Original Message ----
From: Sam Odio <sam at bluwiki.org>
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:04:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Feature: "Email this page"


Erik,

I would agree with Robert - ideally you make a special page and add  
an "email user" button in your skin.

If you want to go the "hackish" route use a mailto link and define  
the subject/body.  Of the top of my head, something like this might  
work:
<A HREF="mailto:?subject=Foobar.com web page recommendation.&body=Hi,  
You might be interested in this web page; <?php $this->text 
('pageurl') ?>">Tell a friend</A>

Let me know if you implement a SpecialPage - as I would be interested  
in also doing that on http://BluWiki.org

-s


On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:44 AM, Robert Leverington wrote:

> That would require editing the skin files as all of the links that
> appear in the toolbox are found in the SkinName.php files, it might
> also need a new special page depending on how it was implemented.
>
> If it were like the Emailuser item then it could just be a special
> page with options on it (you would need to be logged in though)
> otherwise it could be a mailto: link however they are not very
> friendly if you are using a public computer or use online web mail.
>
> On 18/10/06, Eric K <ek79501 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "Email this page" is a very useful feature that can boost the  
>> traffic of a website. Any suggestions on how to enable this in the  
>> Toolbox on the left for every page?
>>
>>   thanks
>>   Eric
>>
>>
>>
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