Another reason to do this is that Facebook doesn't even allow sharing links to some Wikimedia projects.

Via @Bawolff, a discussion on the Wikipedia Weekly group

You can't share this link: https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Your comment couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our community standards.

Further comments show the same block applies to users trying to post the link in the comments from Japan. A couple users have posted a link to species.m.wikimedia.org in the comments.

This shows that further deterioration of Facebook's well-known moderation problems is ongoing.

CC @Wittylama as you asked to add this to Phabricator.

Also, I've tried the link from a recent post and it doesn't even work: it produces an empty post after one and two redirects. It seems nobody is using those links, as nobody noticed.

I think the correct solution is to remove all share links. They're redundant anyway, because most people likely to share a link already have their client-specific mechanisms for doing so. Every mobile browser has a dialog to share a link via your currently installed apps.

The only link possibly worth adding is https://fedi-share.toolforge.org/ if for some reason fediverse sharing turns out to be poorly supported by such standard mechanisms.

Current state on the WMF website:

I’d add two vendor-independent links:

• a mailto: link – basic, universally available, and works without JavaScript,
• and a Web Share API button – this is basically the same as the client-specific mechanisms, but it’s within the website, making it more discoverable; it allows sharing wherever one wants (including email, including Facebook and Twitter if one uses them, including Fediverse, including messenger apps etc.), but its support is spotty on Windows and Mac and non-existent on Linux, with consistent support only on mobile (so it should be shown only if supported by the browser), and requires JS.

Twitter was removed. Share links on the current website are:

• Facebook (although as mentioned above it just starts a blank post)
• Bluesky
• LinkedIn
• Email (mailto:)
• Copy Link