[Wikinews-l] Wikinews socialites
Joe Anderson
computerjoe at gmail.com
Fri May 29 22:24:02 UTC 2009
On 2009-05-28 13:24:43 +0100, "Brian McNeil"
<brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> said:
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> Okay. I can bring this up with appropriate people, but I want input here
> first.
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> Wikinews needs to be bringing people in to read our stories, and the way =
> I
> see some people (who are on this list) doing so is by posting to twitter =
> and
> Facebook.
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> Many sites have a set of social sharing links at the bottom of an =
> article.
> Is there anything stopping us from doing the same?
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> First possible objection - requires embedding of a link/webbug that lets
> them see who reads an article. Different from "who posts an article" by
> clicking on the 'social bookmark' button.
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> Second - can we per [[WN:FU]] justify hosting their logos locally?
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> =20
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> Points to note:
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> Can we do what the BBC do? If you add one of their stories to Facebook =
> the
> pop-up window allows to select from all images on the article page.
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> Brian McNeil
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> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Okay… I can bring this up with =
> appropriate
> people, but I want input here first.</span></font></p>
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> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Wikinews needs to be bringing people in to =
> read our
> stories, and the way I see some people (who are on this list) doing so =
> is by
> posting to twitter and Facebook.</span></font></p>
>
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
>
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Many sites have a set of social sharing links =
> at the
> bottom of an article. Is there anything stopping us from doing the =
> same?</span></font></p>
>
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>First possible objection – requires =
> embedding
> of a link/webbug that lets them see who reads an article. Different from =
> “who
> posts an article” by clicking on the ‘social bookmark’
> button.</span></font></p>
>
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Second – can we per [[WN:FU]] justify =
> hosting
> their logos locally?</span></font></p>
>
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Points to note:</span></font></p>
>
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Can we do what the BBC do? If you add one of =
> their
> stories to Facebook the pop-up window allows to select from all images =
> on the
> article page.</span></font></p>
>
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-US =
> style=3D'font-size:
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