I am opening this task in courtesy to a reader who emailed answers@ dismayed that Wikipedia does not offer an option to share articles via email. Some browsers, such as Chrome, do not have this option by default.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T318449 [Tracking] Improve the sharing of MediaWiki content | |||
| Open | None | T318446 [Tracking] Improve sharing link functionality of pages | |||
| Open | None | T89850 "Email this page" feature |
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that sounds nice!
So what exactly do we need to implement.? Do we have to export whole page onto the mail?
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@Rohanj25: I think this would probably just be a link in the sidebar, to "Share this page" or similar. (That's what Firefox has in the right-click menu. But Chrome doesn't have anything by default.)
However, there have been a few discussions over the years, about:
- re-evaluating the "Print/Export" toolbox
- the perennial requests for having a way to share pages on specific social media sites (see the 2015 mailing list discussion link, in particular)
I think this request would fit in well, amongst that wider scope.
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Just a note; there should be a lot of old closed bug reports on this subject already that have been submitted and rejected over the years. Sending arbitrary pages to arbitrary email addresses is a very spammable activity, and traditionally we've been unwilling to do that sort of thing.
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Those other tasks seem to be (interpreted as, or actually intended as) requesting a complicated webform, which could indeed be abused...
Instead, (imo) this task is just about creating a simple mailto: link, e.g.
<a href="mailto:?subject=$1&body=$2">Share via email</a> = Share via email
for people who use browsers that don't have that functionality (eg Chrome (Oh, and Firefox... The right-click menu's "Share This Page" link just sends me to https://activations.cdn.mozilla.net/en-US/ which doesn't have an obvious email option.... I have to use the hard-to-find "File->Email link..." process to get a prefilled email :-/ ))
It would be as simple as $1=title and $2=URL
So, on [[w:en:Monkey]], we'd have:
<a href="mailto:?subject=Monkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&body=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey">Share via email</a> = Share via email