Mailing List Archive: Sharing Wikimedia pages on Facebook, etc.

Sharing Wikimedia pages on Facebook, etc.

a22112216 at yahoo

Feb 6, 2009, 9:37 AM

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There was a discussion at the Village Pump on en-wikipedia a year ago about implementing the rather familiar link sharing options that more and more websites have installed in order to increase readership.Typically this would show as:

Save to del.icio.us â€¢ Share on Facebook â€¢ Digg This! â€¢ outside.in:
geotag this story â€¢ Discuss on Newsvine â€¢ Stumble It! â€¢ Sphere: Related
Content â€¢ Add to del.icio.us.

- with perhaps some icons.

I haven't been able to locate other discussions with regards to our implementing this feature.

Have there been past discussions about this? Is this not a good idea?

Halvor (meco)

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Re: Sharing Wikimedia pages on Facebook, etc. [ In reply to ]

innocentkiller at gmail

Feb 6, 2009, 9:44 AM

Post #2 of 7 (984 views)

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Halvor <a22112216@yahoo.com> wrote:

> There was a discussion at the Village Pump on en-wikipedia a year ago about
> implementing the rather familiar link sharing options that more and more
> websites have installed in order to increase readership.Typically this would
> show as:
>
> Save to del.icio.us • Share on Facebook • Digg This! • outside.in:
> geotag this story • Discuss on Newsvine • Stumble It! • Sphere: Related
> Content • Add to del.icio.us.
>
> - with perhaps some icons.
>
> I haven't been able to locate other discussions with regards to our
> implementing this feature.
>
> Have there been past discussions about this? Is this not a good idea?
>
> Halvor (meco)
>

I think there's an extension that does this already, but I could be wrong.
FWIW: I would want to be able to disable this easily (either via preference
or CSS). Not every user would want it or use it (I for one wouldn't). Also:
limit by namespace perhaps? Sharing of project namespace pages
could quickly lead to accusations of canvassing...

-Chad
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Re: Sharing Wikimedia pages on Facebook, etc. [ In reply to ]

geniice at gmail

Feb 6, 2009, 9:53 AM

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2009/2/6 Halvor <a22112216@yahoo.com>:
> There was a discussion at the Village Pump on en-wikipedia a year ago about implementing the rather familiar link sharing options that more and more websites have installed in order to increase readership.Typically this would show as:
>
> Save to del.icio.us • Share on Facebook • Digg This! • outside.in:
> geotag this story • Discuss on Newsvine • Stumble It! • Sphere: Related
> Content • Add to del.icio.us.
>
> - with perhaps some icons.
>
> I haven't been able to locate other discussions with regards to our implementing this feature.
>
> Have there been past discussions about this? Is this not a good idea?
>
> Halvor (meco)

Since we have no wish to advertise such services there is no reason to
include such links.

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Re: Sharing Wikimedia pages on Facebook, etc. [ In reply to ]

sterkebak at gmail

Feb 6, 2009, 9:58 AM

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I would oppose to this. It would be the same as advertisment only it
would not give money.

It will be a fast wayfor canvassing also.. Or place a message that you
don't like a user with a link and things can go very fast.....

huib

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Re: Sharing Wikimedia pages on Facebook, etc. [ In reply to ]

thomas.dalton at gmail

Feb 6, 2009, 10:24 AM

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e2009/2/6 Halvor <a22112216@yahoo.com>:
> There was a discussion at the Village Pump on en-wikipedia a year ago about implementing the rather familiar link sharing options that more and more websites have installed in order to increase readership.Typically this would show as:
>
> Save to del.icio.us â€¢ Share on Facebook â€¢ Digg This! â€¢ outside.in:
> geotag this story â€¢ Discuss on Newsvine â€¢ Stumble It! â€¢ Sphere: Related
> Content â€¢ Add to del.icio.us.

I don't see how things like Digg are useful for an encyclopaedia.
Aren't they more for topical stuff? The only thing you really need to
share a page is to copy and paste the URL into an email, people can do
that without our help.

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Re: Sharing Wikimedia pages on Facebook, etc. [ In reply to ]

cnchenminqi at gmail

Feb 7, 2009, 1:22 AM

Post #6 of 7 (983 views)

I think those links must not be added since it is somehow a form of
advertising for sites like digg or facebook, IMHO. Those who are really
interested in this and really need this should write a JavaScript to allow
such links to be added.

User:Bencmq

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com>wrote:

> e2009/2/6 Halvor <a22112216@yahoo.com>:
> > There was a discussion at the Village Pump on en-wikipedia a year ago
> about implementing the rather familiar link sharing options that more and
> more websites have installed in order to increase readership.Typically this
> would show as:
> >
> > Save to del.icio.us • Share on Facebook • Digg This! • outside.in:
> > geotag this story • Discuss on Newsvine • Stumble It! • Sphere: Related
> > Content • Add to del.icio.us.
>
> I don't see how things like Digg are useful for an encyclopaedia.
> Aren't they more for topical stuff? The only thing you really need to
> share a page is to copy and paste the URL into an email, people can do
> that without our help.
>
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Re: Sharing Wikimedia pages on Facebook, etc. [ In reply to ]

pattonabc at gmail

Feb 7, 2009, 7:20 AM

Post #7 of 7 (973 views)

I don't think this is a good idea because it's basically advertising that
doesn't generate any revenue for us.
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