There is indeed a mighty debate about this. When we discussed the simple idea of a WikiShare extension to post articles on social media sites - it raised a hell storm that I still have war flashbacks from.
Personally, I think the arguments against at least the ability to easily share articles on social media are dwindling in logic and effect as more time passes. It seems unlikely to me that enWP will adopt it first - but I think it's possible that other project wikis may. There are some that already essentially do this using templates. I continue to believe that an extension solution remains preferable - and will once again offer to work on that if there is indeed a desire. The last few times the end results on if it was worth the time were mixed. -greg aka varnent On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:21 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd say: hit social media! Make MediaWiki and Wikimedia look like a > *happening place*. > > Everyone [*] who runs PHP is looking seriously at HHVM right now, and > that's entirely because WMF moved to it. > > The Phabricator migration made it to lwn.net, which is low-traffic but > high-quality. > > Basically, cool stuff happens around here and it needs to be blogged > and tweeted and facebooked and HNed and Reddited assiduously. This > will lure more brilliant people in to work on the cool stuff that > makes the world a better place. > > > - d. > > [*] ymmv > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
