Re: [Commons-l] Social sharing widget

2010-10-07 Thread Platonides
Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > This is a good thing to watch for, but I don't see how it relates to the > idea of having "share" buttons. > > Wikimedia projects already have towering, monumental PageRank. And our > URLs can already be submitted to social media, and there are obvious > opportunitie

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Andrew Gray
On 7 October 2010 19:39, Paul Houle wrote: > There probably are thousands or tens of thousands of 'sharing' sites out > there,  and you can't draw a clear line between ones that are "big > enough",  the ones that are somebody's web-spam project (it isn't hard > to make a flock of electric sheep t

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Krinkle
Op 7 okt 2010, om 21:34 heeft Andrew Gray het volgende geschreven: > On 7 October 2010 14:23, Krinkle wrote: > >> Main reason being that, although the buttons are highly useful (and I >> can't imagine any big usercase in which they would be unwanted), >> so aside from that they are also in a

Re: [Commons-l] Social sharing widget

2010-10-07 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
Thanks for all your thoughts on social sharing... clearly you know this field really well. I just want to distinguish what Wikimedia would be going for (at least in my opinion) versus a typical ad-revenue-driven site. On 10/7/10 11:39 AM, Paul Houle wrote: > As for social sharing, that's mor

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Andrew Gray
On 7 October 2010 14:23, Krinkle wrote: > Main reason being that, although the buttons are highly useful (and I > can't imagine any big usercase in which they would be unwanted), > so aside from that they are also in a very visible area that lots > of scripts, tools and applications do or cou

Re: [Commons-l] Add this at Commons

2010-10-07 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi guys, To dig up an old thread. Op 27-8-2010 23:25, Platonides schreef: > There's http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Social_Bookmarking (with > the above mentioned issues). > > But I think that Maarten refered to something different, like a box with > html code or bbcode to embed it. > W

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Krinkle
As for the inconsistency in the icons (eg. not the same 'style'). I'll see if I can find alternatives all from one set tomorrow (or anyone else feel free to propose or edit yourself): eg. pick one of the below: * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tango_project * http://commons.wikimedi

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Paul Houle
On 10/6/2010 9:55 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > Yeah, that had its uses, so why was that removed? Deemed annoying? > > I've tried to research what's the best way to do "share this" buttons > and there isn't any clear data or consensus on this. Collapsing the > various share icons into one popup

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Andrew Gray
On 7 October 2010 09:05, Magnus Manske wrote: > By popular demand here :-) I have re-enabled the larger top/side > icons. It is easy to switch back and forth between them. Maybe a user > option? Or would that be overkill? I'm all in favour of keeping them on the left, though a user preference to

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Krinkle
Op 7 okt 2010, om 10:05 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Liam Wyatt > wrote: >> >> On 7 October 2010 01:55, Neil Kandalgaonkar >> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/6/10 4:44 PM, Krinkle wrote: The clear icons to the right were better in my opinion withou

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Magnus Manske
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > > On 7 October 2010 01:55, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: >> >> On 10/6/10 4:44 PM, Krinkle wrote: >> > The clear icons to the right were better in my opinion without being >> > disturbing or overwhelming. >> > What is the motivation / reason for the

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 7 October 2010 01:55, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > On 10/6/10 4:44 PM, Krinkle wrote: > > The clear icons to the right were better in my opinion without being > > disturbing or overwhelming. > > What is the motivation / reason for the change ? > > Taking in account that the UsabilityInitiative