[Wikipedia-l] Re: wikipedia evangelism: mail article

Sat Nov 23 23:54:53 UTC 2002

On Saturday 23 November 2002 12:39 pm,  Tom Parmenter wrote:
> I'm resurrecting this feature request from [[Wikipedia:Village pump]]
> where it is discussed under "Wikipedia Evangelism".
>
> The point raised was the desirability of an easy way to ask a friend
> to comment on the accuracy of an article, or simply to point out an
> interesting article to someone.  
>
> How about doing what a lot of news pages do?   Add a box at the bottom
> of each article
>
> [] Send this article to a friend
>
> along with a java mailer to fire the message off and a text box to add
> a note.  Having a linked mailer would eliminate the necessity of
> firing up a mail program.

This would be a most cool feature. Of course, it would only be available to 
logged-in users that have valid email addresses set-up in their preferences.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

Opps! I forgot to add a diff to a list response to JHK to wikiEN-L. Here are a 
couple of substantial edits to pay for this mailing list post and the JHK 
one; 
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Niobium/Temp&diff=0&oldid=440062
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Jimmy_Doolittle&diff=0&oldid=440290