Your help pushing these tasks to some direction is welcome:
"Share" button (tools) in Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29027
enhancement - add social sharing feature after upload https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42456
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The great thing of personal opinion is that they make great arguments, they have their point When they are presented well they are compelling.. HOWEVER, we are in the habit of testing many of these arguments.
This is a test that is bound to be interesting to many of us. Thanks, GerardM
On 12 January 2015 at 06:35, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
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
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