Tim Starling wrote:
Yes, there's a risk we could end up with an
alphabetical list of
hundreds of social networks to share an article on, like
Special:Booksources. Better than nothing, I guess.
You guess wrong. As quiddity points out, we don't want
<https://i.imgur.com/XGJHLvW.png> or equivalent on our sites. Such a mess
of icons is ugly and tacky and awful. It would be worse than nothing.
Adding social media icons is a lot of pain for very little gain, in my
opinion. People who want to tweet about an article or post about a page on
Facebook can (and do!) copy and paste the URL. What problem are we trying
to solve here? If the answer is that we want to make it painless to submit
noise into the ether and our users are only capable of clicking a colorful
icon and using a pre-filled tweet or Facebook post or e-mail body, we
probably need to re-evaluate what we're trying to accomplish and why.
MZMcBride