Proposal:Facebook connect

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  1. Achieve continued growth in readership
  2. Focus on quality content
  3. Increase Participation
  4. Stabilize and improve the infrastructure
  5. Encourage Innovation



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Summary

This proposal wants to actively promote Wikimedia, help to recruit new users and allow current users to share their activity in projects with their Facebook friends.

Proposal

This proposal wants to employ "Facebook connect" feature in Wikimedia projects.

Motivation

Communities of Wikimedia projects are very isolated from other social networking sites. To further reach and participation in Wikimedia projects.

Key Questions

Information Security Challenges in Connecting Wikimedia and Facebook ? !

Potential Costs

  • Coding, part of MediaWiki plug-in ready here.
  • Editors leaving

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  1. Pramukh Arkalgud Ganeshamurthy [[1]]