I agree with this, it's really not a technical issue at this point so it
doesn't have a place on wikitech-l
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Russell Nelson <russnelson(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
This sounds like something non-technical, like you
would discuss at a
village pump. Maybe you should do that and then get back to us with a
greater variety of user opinions? If you're right and this is a dumb idea,
then you'll save us a lot of time by canvassing users.
-russ
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, John Du Hart <compwhizii(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Why.
Why does an encyclopedia need a share button? I can see the purpose on
Commons, but for an article? I just don't see the justification. What do
you
really need to share with your friends from an reference source. What
does
a
button do that copypaste can't?
There's also the technical problems this would incur. Each of these
buttons
require yet another HTTP request each, which
would make the hard work by
RL
team moot.
It just doesn't make sense.
On Oct 20, 2011 11:54 PM, <jidanni(a)jidanni.org> wrote:
Gentlemen, where is the Share button?
All other sites have them by now, but on Wikipedia one cannot even find
its definition in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share .
At least on ones account preferences there should be a way to "activate
sharing with the following websites ... " causing a share button to
appear in the navigation menu.
If there is an extension, then wikipedia should install it and not
depend on browser plugins, etc.
OK, I made
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31853
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