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MediaWiki Skins Design

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MediaWiki Skins Design

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
MediaWiki Skins Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Social Bookmarking


Social bookmarking allows people to "bookmark", or make a note of, the websites they like or find useful, and share these bookmarks with other social bookmarkers while surfing the Internet.

Traditionally, bookmarking was done through the Internet browsing software, such as Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, or Opera. With social bookmarking, your bookmarks are not confined to one browser, but are stored online.

The following two options are available for enabling social bookmarking on your website:

  • Link to each individual social bookmarking service that you wish to use

  • Use a social bookmarking aggregator such as Socializer or AddThis

    Note

    Even if you do not have links to allow visitors to bookmark your website, many services allow their users to install toolbars in their browser, which allows your website to be added anyway. Adding these links will help to spread your wiki and its new skin very fast.

Individual Social Bookmarking Services

There are huge numbers of social...