Message: 13 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:53:02 -0500 From: mhershberger@wikimedia.org (Mark A. Hershberger) Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] SOPA commercial social networks To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 87hazttbo1.fsf@spyke.nichework.com Content-Type: text/plain
Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com writes:
It would be nice to have these social tools as opt in tools for wikipedia in general.
Unless I'm mistaken, Admins on-wiki could do this without consulting the WMF by installing a gadget which people could then opt-in to use.
As far as built-in functionality, the first thing to do is to get an extension that provides this reviewed. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue does not show anything that would provide this.
Mark.
I disagree. First step would be to convince Wikipedia et al that social networking buttons are a good idea.
Social networking button type extensions are very simple (Its a linked image, that's it) and thus trivial to create. The issue has always been that whenever asked, the Wikipedians say no (and its not like they once said no 7 years ago, the topic seems to come up at a quite regular basis).
-bawolff