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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
