You can use thanks on the first edit, can't you?
Andrew.
On 22 September 2014 18:20, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The amount of times I've viewed a photo on
Wikipedia and thought wow
and wanted to thank the contributor for putting it there for me to
see.
Also it always seemed strange to me that I couldn't thank someone for
creating a page...
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The amount of times I've viewed a photo on
Wikipedia and thought wow and
wanted to thank the contributor for putting it there for me to see.
Also it always seemed strange to me that I couldn't thank someone for
creating a page.
On 12 Sep 2014 15:50, "Matthew Flaschen" <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
> On 09/12/2014 02:28 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>>
>> How many estimated days of developer work is the "major can of worms"
of
>> delivering thank notifications only, in a new way, to IPs? As cans of
>> worms go, I'm pretty sure it would not be on the major end of the scale,
>> if an experienced developer actually quantified it.
>
>
> I doubt we would make a whole new backend just for anon recipients of
> Thanks. That leaves only two possibilities:
>
> * Have Echo support anonymous recipients
> (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56828). Apparently Wikihow
> has code for this, and there is a WIP patch, but Wikihow doesn't have the
> exact same infrastructure as us.
> * Use an existing backend, probably user talk pages (or maybe Flow user
> talk pages, assuming anon talk pages are eventually converted over to this)
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
>
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