[Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
User:HalanTul from the Sakha Wikipedia asked me to ask about this here. The writers of the Sakha Wikipedia want to add icons to "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" to some articles to promote the project, but they are concerned about the legal and ideological implications of such a move: Doesn't putti

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread church.of.emacs.ml
On 02/07/2011 10:21 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > User:HalanTul from the Sakha Wikipedia asked me to ask about this here. > > The writers of the Sakha Wikipedia want to add icons to "share in > Facebook/Twitter/etc" to some articles to promote the project, but > they are concerned about the legal a

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 07/02/2011, at 20:21, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: > User:HalanTul from the Sakha Wikipedia asked me to ask about this here. > > The writers of the Sakha Wikipedia want to add icons to "share in > Facebook/Twitter/etc" to some articles to promote the project, but > they are concerned about the le

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread Przykuta
> Wikinews has used these kinds of buttons for quite a while. They are placed > in a "share this" box at the bottom of every article. See, for example, > http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egyptian_president_will_not_seek_re-election_in_September_after_protests > > For a while equivalent buttons were a

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread Jon Harald Søby
2011/2/7 Przykuta > > Wikinews has used these kinds of buttons for quite a while. They are > placed in a "share this" box at the bottom of every article. See, for > example, > http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egyptian_president_will_not_seek_re-election_in_September_after_protests > > > > For a while

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread David Gerard
2011/2/7 Jon Harald Søby : > It will be better ideologically, and it will also be pointless, as no-one > outside the geek squad (that's us & co) know what it is or use it. The goal > of Twitter & Facebook sharing would be to advertise the content to the > public, and the effect would be extremely

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Gray
On 7 February 2011 12:13, David Gerard wrote: > This sort of thing would best be implemented as a gadget, which users > can then choose to switch on with their chosen selection of places to > post to. This is the best approach, I think. Or, once out of testing, turn it on by default with *no* se

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread Jon Davis
If you're interested in borrowing the Wikinews "share" links, the template in question is: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Social_bookmarks -Jon On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 02:31, Liam Wyatt wrote: > On 07/02/2011, at 20:21, "Amir E. Aharoni" > wrote: > > > User:HalanTul from the Sakha Wikipe

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jon Davis wrote: If you're interested in borrowing the Wikinews "share" links, the template > in question is: > > http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Social_bookmarks > strategy.wikimedia.org did basically the same thing on proposals as well.

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jon Davis wrote: > > If you're interested in borrowing the Wikinews "share" links, the template > > in question is: > > > > http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Social_bookmarks > > > > strategy.wikimedia.org