Last modified: 2014-07-20 20:22:18 UTC
Some users of the german wikipedia proposed an "e-mail this article"-button to be added to the interface. remarks of elian: should be available only to logged-in users who provided an e-mail-address to prevent abuse and potential legal trouble.
(In reply to comment #0) > Some users of the german wikipedia proposed an "e-mail this article"-button to > be added to the interface. > > remarks of elian: should be available only to logged-in users who provided an > e-mail-address to prevent abuse and potential legal trouble. I have heard this suggested many times, both on VP and inserted into tangential discussions of outreach to new potential Wikipedians.
(In reply to comment #0) > remarks of elian: should be available only to logged-in users who provided an > e-mail-address to prevent abuse and potential legal trouble. But this would very much reduce the usefulness of this feature. I can imagine many casual readers sending articles to their friends, who are experts in a certain field, to judge and maybe correct them. There might be a legal risk, and we have to look into this, but OTOH many sites have such a feature, e.g. heise.de.
Personally, I think this feature is perfectly feasible even without restricting it to logged-in users, as long as an IP ban can be used to prevent persistent abusers from using it. Additionally, maybe there should be a rate limit.
I am against, because it means that emails will be sent and this is allways complicated or makes things more complex/new problems.
(In reply to comment #4) > I am against, because it means that emails will be sent and this is allways > complicated or makes things more complex/new problems. Dear Thilo, I have programmed Email notification and authentication. Assumed, that the sender (the one who will send an article to a friend) and the recipient (=friend) have both authenticated addresses, which will be prerequisite in 1.5 to make use of the enhanced email features such as EmailUser and ENotif, I currently don't see any reason, why this feature should not be allowed for registered users. (To be honest, I relatively often missed that feature in the past.) The Enotif is http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 and EAuthen is http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866 and are available in CVS HEAD (i.e. the forthcoming 1.5 version). If you are interested in this, you could check out the version and test it. Brion is going to set up this version as test.wikipedia.org upon his return in the States. Tom
I committed myself to implement this feature. Perhaps I implement also a user option, where (wiki-) users can opt-out to receive such info-mails.
I would like to mail my enemies as well, rectified summary.
(In reply to comment #6) > I committed myself to implement this feature. Perhaps I implement also a user > option, where (wiki-) users can opt-out to receive such info-mails. But are you implementing it to be patched into MediaWiki, or into your own fork? If the latter, please un-assign this bug to yourself, so that we know it needs to be done for the main code still.
Every browser I've seen in the last few years has an "e-mail this page" feature already. Closing as WONTFIX, as it's redundant and opens extra spamming opportunities with little benefit.
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