2013/2/13 Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org>

To keep it as simple as possible, we propose to only add a small 'thank' link in the History page, next to 'Undo', as shown is this first mockup. We considered putting a thanks link and notification on the diff page as well (see other mockup), but this seems beyond the scope of what we can do this quarter. However, if this feature proves popular, we could add more bells and whistles in future releases.

The who mockups are not really illustrating the most natural way to thank somebody. Usually, you see the diff on your watch list. Then you click on the diff button, see the changes, and, at this point you revert ou thank the guy. The thank button on watch page or the histroy page may not be useful.

On the second mockup, when user Alpha thanks user Zeta, does everyone see that on the diff ?

* a special feature for welcomers or member of help team, in order to create interactions : "I'm available if you need some help"
This is definitely in the cards for our next release. We held it back from the first release, because of the need to customize the link for every Wikipedia project based on their unique requirements.

This feature must be choosen by the volunteers.

Could you explain a bit more about what would trigger this feature? How often would it be sent, and how would we determine automatically if the user is in fact progressing well enough to warrant some of these superlatives.

Good question... We can increase it step by step : the 5 first ones may be just a "thank you", the 5 next a "very good job"... Or the progression may depend of the user who thanks : if somebody like a lot all your edits, you will have better messages from him, and then a possible interaction. I'll ask the French project.

Is it possible to display on Echo special announcements ? If we can advertise people about major RFC or votes, the community will be more involved.

We are considering adding this feature in future releases, but it would require some work to make sure that it can't be abused to spam our users. For now, the Central Notice can continue to be used for community-wide announcements.

Okay. I was wondering for votes like a new sysop, or a edit-a-thon, who are not really known by new users. there is no spam risk if the asccess is restrected like the system messages.

When do we start the Echo test on fr.wiki ? :-)