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post Sat 25th June 2011, 5:52am
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia's New Love Button Will Let You Send Kittens or Beer to Others[/b]
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Wikipedia will launch a “Love” button next week that will let users send their messages of appreciation to other users through virtual cats, beer and more. The experimental feature, called WikiLove, is scheduled to make its debut on the English version ...



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post Sat 25th June 2011, 1:13pm
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QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Sat 25th June 2011, 5:52am) *

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia's New Love Button Will Let You Send Kittens or Beer to Others[/b]
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Wikipedia will launch a “Love” button next week that will let users send their messages of appreciation to other users through virtual cats, beer and more. The experimental feature, called WikiLove, is scheduled to make its debut on the English version ...

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I hope this is a case of Mashable's often inaccurate reporting. Adding a button to the interface for adding "wikilove" templates to other user's talk pages is just about the dumbest, most superficial "social networking" attempt I have seen in a long time.
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post Sat 25th June 2011, 6:07pm
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It's not going over so well in the Mashable comments.
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post Mon 27th June 2011, 11:40pm
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QUOTE(carbuncle @ Sat 25th June 2011, 2:13pm) *

QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Sat 25th June 2011, 5:52am) *

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia's New Love Button Will Let You Send Kittens or Beer to Others[/b]
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Wikipedia will launch a “Love” button next week that will let users send their messages of appreciation to other users through virtual cats, beer and more. The experimental feature, called WikiLove, is scheduled to make its debut on the English version ...

<a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=dBBnUwiFK_VoMSM" target="_blank"></a>

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I hope this is a case of Mashable's often inaccurate reporting. Adding a button to the interface for adding "wikilove" templates to other user's talk pages is just about the dumbest, most superficial "social networking" attempt I have seen in a long time.

Oh Happy Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Wikilove button will be with you on Thursday.
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post Wed 29th June 2011, 7:20am
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post Wed 29th June 2011, 7:49am
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Does this mean that Uncyclopedia will come out with an "Unlove" button? biggrin.gif
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post Mon 4th July 2011, 8:03am
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Oh my gosh, Facebook has finally arrived to Wikipedia. Run for cover before it explodes! Quick!
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Oh my gosh, Facebook has finally arrived to Wikipedia. Run for cover before it explodes! Quick!


WP went down that route with barnstars and little userboxes. Now all they need to add is a "Find friends" functions.
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