[Wikimedia-l] "Tweet this page" from some or all sites???

[Mathieu Stumpf]

Le 2013-04-18 14:42, Thomas Morton a écrit :
>>  Those said, I don't use Twitter in the first place, so I really 
>> have no
>>>> idea what kind of gap you would like to fill with your feature.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  *rolls eyes*
>>>
>>> Sorry, I don't mean to be snippy but this discussion always 
>>> frustrates me.
>>> It's the sort of elitest tech snobbery (anti-social-networks, lack 
>>> of
>>> understanding of how 90% of the world use the web, etc.) we suffer 
>>> from.
>>>
>>
>> All appologies, while I for sure have a tech background, I didn't 
>> meant to
>> sound elitist. On the contrary, I'm asking you to explain me what is 
>> the
>> obvious need that you hope to fill with such a feature and that 
>> couldn't be
>> achieved within Wikimedia,
>
>
> What would it achieve? Well, people share content all over the web to 
> their
> network; Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, etc. Facilitating this 
> is
> obvious The reason it hasn't happened yet is that the editing 
> community
> seems generally politically against the idea of social networks, so
> anything relating to them is evil! ;)

Ok, but what I don't understand is what prevent them to share links to 
Wikimedia projects?

> Why should be only be building and sharing content within Wikimedia? 
> The
> vast majority of the consumers of the site could not care one thing 
> about
> "within Wikimedia", and that is fine. Foisting it upon them is the 
> poor
> approach :D

I agree. However if people are intending to give feed back on the page, 
especialy feedback which would be useful to improve it, I think it would 
be far better to keep this comments within the Wikimedia echosystem.


>> espcecialy with the coming Echo extension.
>>
>>
> I'm not sure how the Echo extension is relevant to sharing Wikipedia
> content as widely as possible. It's an internal notification system. 
> :S I'd
> be *very *disappointed to see us build a system for sharing content
> internally (which is what you appear to be advocating), that is not 
> our
> purpose (to be a social network).

Ok, it seems to me that I am really misunderstanding what you are 
talking about.


> See above; are you really suggesting that no one should be sharing 
> content
> outside of Mediawiki?? ;)

Of course not, it looks like I just don't understand what are the 
barriers that seems to annoy you.

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