"Carl (CBM)" <cbm.wikipedia at
gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mark A.
Hershberger
<mhershberger at wikimedia.org> wrote:
Posted this issue at <http://hexm.de/8m>.
The above link is to :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Does_Wi…
As of this morning, I count 21 "support" and 25 "oppose".
Part of the opposition was how I phrased it. Wikipedia obviously
doesn't "need" a share button.
I also didn't make it clear that I didn't think we should or would use
any one else's "share" button since that would allow them to track their
users through Wikipedia. As a result, I didn't count the one opposition
that seemed primarily concerned with the tracking issue.
Someone pointed to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TheDJ/Sharebox and
I tried it out, but it only worked after disabling the Firefox extension
that I use to stop trackers. I'm glad TheDJ has made this available for
those that want to use it, but I would like to get something else in
place that doesn't share data with any intermediaries (such as
AddThis.com) beyond the place that the user actually wants to share
the page.
Mark.
Making a share this link box is really trivial. There are several
implementations on different wikis (I wrote one at enwikinews -
. Commons used
to have one with stockphoto.js. Not sure if they still use it, several
other wikis do their own thing) The issue has always been if people
actually want it, which I believe is one of those discussions that
comes up over and over again on enwikipedia.
-bawolff