Yes, please. I'm often frustrated at not being able to use Thanks from my watchlist.
Building in both Thanks and a reply feature for individual edits is something that Wiki Education Foundation is planning to try for the RecentActivityFeed course monitoring tool we're working on. In its first iteration [1], the feed will include inline diffs (as adapted from Writ Keeper's awesome user script [2]), so that users can see the details of edits without leaving the page. It makes sense from there to make it easier to both Thank users and post messages related to individual diffs.
I suspect it would be a major boon to editor engagement — for Thanks usage in particular — if the inline diffs concept was adapted to be an easily accessible option for all users.
[1] = http://education.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Education_Program:WikiWorks/M... [2] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Writ_Keeper/Scripts/inlineDiffDocs
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
So I think by now, most of us have experienced the positive impact of the Thanks tool (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Thanks) on our wikis.
I'd like to hear thoughts about adding the function to more places. Thanks currently visible on...
- Page histories
- Diffs
I'd like to propose that anywhere that I can undo or rollback an edit, I should be able to thank someone. If that location provides me enough information to revert an edit, surely it provides me enough context to show gratitude as well. With that proposal in mind, some suggestions of new locations includes...
- Watchlist
- RecentChanges
A slightly expanded scope might also include all public logs (move, delete, patrol, etc.). This is requested already at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58485 but may be harder to do.
Thoughts?
-- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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