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

[Mathieu Stumpf]

Le 2013-04-19 02:53, James Alexander a écrit :
> I'm sorry, I don't keep a journal of every reader request I've ever 
> seen or
> heard and I didn't try to make any claim of 'absolute truth' I said 
> it was
> probably the biggest reader request I had ever seen which I stick by. 
> Want
> rough numbers? Amount of people who have personally told it to me, to 
> my
> face? In the 100s (over 200 less then a thousand). That I have seen 
> 2nd
> hand where they were just commenting somewhere on the internet or in 
> print?
> 10s of thousands.

Just providing me links to pages where this feature is requested and 
optionaly a way to compare with other requested features would be very 
kind. I don't have your experience, I can't emit any relevant judgement 
if I don't have a minimum material on which I can base my reasoning, 
don't you think?


> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Mathieu Stumpf <
> psychoslave at culture-libre.org> wrote:
>
> At some level? Everything. We have long found that every little extra 
> step
> makes it much less likely people will do something. Asking someone to 
> copy
> the link and go to their site and paste it (hopefully along with a 
> short
> description) means MUCH MUCH less people will do it. This is true 
> even if
> that was how they were used to sharing content, however it's even 
> more true
> when it is NOT how they are used to sharing content. They are used to
> sharing it with buttons and those buttons 'invite' them to share, to 
> spread
> the knowledge they found.  That isn't contrary to our goals, in my 
> mind
> it's EXACTLY our goals. A book is near useless unless it's read.

While I am also enthusiast with the share and spread knowledge goal, I 
don't think that any means are admissible regardless of other ethical 
concerns. And it's seems that even on the legal ground they may be 
issues regarding the Term Of Use of most popular social media (see 
Matthew Roth message in this thread).