Re: [Wikitech-l] sharing an article on Facebook

2009-10-18 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > I think it's a case of modern browsers behaving differently to older > browsers. Older browsers only supported encoded URLs with % as the URL/URI > standard is defined. But these are very user-unfriendly so modern browsers > now convert these

Re: [Wikitech-l] sharing an article on Facebook

2009-10-16 Thread Andrew Dunbar
2009/10/16 Amir E. Aharoni > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 19:03, Platonides wrote: > > It's a problem at facebook. > > Did you try with % encoded urls, (eg. > > http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94 ) or only hebrew > > ones? (eg. > > http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/חיפה

Re: [Wikitech-l] sharing an article on Facebook

2009-10-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 19:03, Platonides wrote: > It's a problem at facebook. > Did you try with % encoded urls, (eg. > http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94 ) or only hebrew > ones? (eg. http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/חיפה ). Actually, most of the time i use a bookmark that runs s

Re: [Wikitech-l] sharing an article on Facebook

2009-10-16 Thread Platonides
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 15:07, Angela wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Amir E. Aharoni >> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Some of you may be familiar with sharing links on Facebook. >>> >>> If i try to share on Facebook an article from Wikipedia in Hebrew or in >>> Ar

Re: [Wikitech-l] sharing an article on Facebook

2009-10-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 15:07, Angela wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Some of you may be familiar with sharing links on Facebook. > > > > If i try to share on Facebook an article from Wikipedia in Hebrew or in > > Arabic, the Facebook interf

Re: [Wikitech-l] sharing an article on Facebook

2009-10-16 Thread Angela
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Hello, > > Some of you may be familiar with sharing links on Facebook. > > If i try to share on Facebook an article from Wikipedia in Hebrew or in > Arabic, the Facebook interface offers to add a thumbnail not from the > article, but from t

Re: [Wikitech-l] sharing an article on Facebook

2009-10-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 08:46, Brian wrote: > I tried adding both your first and third links to my profile and facebook > was happy to attach them. All foreign symbols look correct. The problem, as > one would suspect on a site that entertains 1e6*n users, is not with > facebook. > > On the first

Re: [Wikitech-l] sharing an article on Facebook

2009-10-15 Thread Brian
I tried adding both your first and third links to my profile and facebook was happy to attach them. All foreign symbols look correct. The problem, as one would suspect on a site that entertains 1e6*n users, is not with facebook. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail

[Wikitech-l] sharing an article on Facebook

2009-10-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, Some of you may be familiar with sharing links on Facebook. If i try to share on Facebook an article from Wikipedia in Hebrew or in Arabic, the Facebook interface offers to add a thumbnail not from the article, but from the main page of that Wikipedia. The summary text describing the link