Change Details

The new [[ https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/09/navigator-share | WebShare API ]] allows us to encourage users to share our content via social networks and chats from Android devices (and hopefully in future iOS). We should show a button that allows sharing from the mobile site to encourage distribution of our content. We can track number of shares by suffixing a parameter to all URLs e.g. ?mobileshare=1 to get a sense of how widely used it is. Engineering effort involved is minimal - maybe 1 or 2 points. This button has already been prototyped on https://trending.wmflabs.org

The new [[ https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/09/navigator-share | WebShare API ]] allows us to encourage users to share our content via social networks and chats from Android devices (and hopefully in future iOS). We should show a button that allows sharing from the mobile site to encourage distribution of our content. We can track number of shares by suffixing a parameter to all URLs e.g. ?mobileshare=1 to get a sense of how widely used it is. Engineering effort involved is minimal - maybe 1 or 2 points. This button has already been prototyped on https://trending.wmflabs.org # Motivations * adding modern functionality * helping people share more easily * encourage dissemination of knowledge * rid the world of Facebook like buttons by making people more aware of an open alternative * closely lines up with our values (embracing web standards, decentralising web from big companies such as facebook) # Measurement We can count share button clicks via statsv cheaply

The new [[ https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/09/navigator-share | WebShare API ]] allows us to encourage users to share our content via social networks and chats from Android devices (and hopefully in future iOS). We should show a button that allows sharing from the mobile site to encourage distribution of our content. We can track number of shares by suffixing a parameter to all URLs e.g. ?mobileshare=1 to get a sense of how widely used it is. Engineering effort involved is minimal - maybe 1 or 2 points. This button has already been prototyped on https://trending.wmflabs.org # Motivations * adding modern functionality * helping people share more easily * encourage dissemination of knowledge * rid the world of Facebook like buttons by making people more aware of an open alternative * closely lines up with our values (embracing web standards, decentralising web from big companies such as facebook) # Measurement We can count share button clicks via statsv cheaply