Assuming that we even use icons! I think a text drop down box which lists the various networks that one could share onto would work just as well.
On 12 January 2015 at 15:35, 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
