On 22.08.2014 09:10, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote:
* I feel uncomfortable linking to Facebook/Twitter/etc. on the main page.
Fair enough. How about we make
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Social_media prettier and link
to that instead on the main page?
I am not a big fan of these sites either, but it seems a bit too strong
to me to remove links to related external pages from the Main Page
altogether. What is important for me is that we do not over-emphasize
these sites, and that we do not include any of their active content
(third-party Like buttons etc.). As it currently is, I think we have a
good balance. I would, however, suggest an alphabetic (or otherwise
neutral) order in listing third-party pages.
My deeper reasons to think that we should keep these links are as
follows: We use these sites to engage a greater community, especially
people who are newcomers to Wikidata/Wikipedia/Wikimedia. If successful,
this will also help more people to understand our values of openness and
transparency. I think that these values may not be fully shared by all
of the sites that we link to, and this is why I am critical about them
-- yet I think in order to change this it is more effetive to reach out
to their users than to build up barriers.
Cheers,
Markus
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