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@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@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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