Hi Clayton On the one hand I think it would be good to try it on a small area of the wiki, if that's possible, because it is the way information sharing is going nowadays but maybe we should just experiment with one particular area of OOo. For instance maybe it's worth doing it with the tutorials because alot of what I've seen on social media is the sharing of webinars, eseminars and tutorials, I think I've seen the odd posting by sponsers too; also I've noticed that people are reporting bugs on twitter to do with OOo. On the otherhand I understand the problems it could create and could irritate people, which is the last thing I want to do because let's face it it's supposed to be quick and easy to contribute. I'll take some time this afternoon to route around and see what else is on offer and get back to you.
Claire On 24 February 2010 04:15, ccornell - OpenOffice.org < ccorn...@openoffice.org> wrote: > On 02/23/10 20:24, Claire Wood wrote: > >> I tried experimenting with one of the wiki pages putting a button on >> using AddThis (http://www.addthis.com/) and I couldn't get it to work on >> the >> wiki page. There are users on twitter and I see them all the time. There >> are also 75 groups on facebook all dedicated to OpenOffice.org. Just >> think >> this is another way to reach out to users. Can anyone give me some advice >> where I should put the free code that is outputted from the site because >> I've never seen <body></body> tags in a wiki page and apparently that's >> where they should go or somewhere in the template. >> >> An example of the code that is outputted is below. I just went through >> the >> website to create a button but didn't register an account. >> > > Hi Claire. > > Basically, the code you tried to paste in is not something that will work > on MediaWiki - the code you tried to use is designed for "real" webpages. > > To use AddThis on every page, we'd have to edit the MediaWiki skin files, > and inject the code into the php that is used to define the skin layout. > This solution is... not so nice. > > There is a MediaWiki widget extension I could install: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widget > which can then be used with this Widget code: > http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/AddThis > > The AddThis button then is shown wherever you insert this code in a Wiki > page. > > The problem, if you can call it that, with this solution is that we really > have no control of consistency or placement with the Widget method. > > Thoughts or comments on this? > > I can install the extension and we can try it out... but I'd like your > input on this before I run off and start installing things like this ;-) > > C. > -- > Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org > OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead > Sun Microsystems, Hamburg, Germany > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org > > -- Best wishes Claire Wood
