I like this idea. It fits with the style of the other notifications as well:
JANESMITH left a message on your talk page. JANESMITH mentioned you on ...
Presumably if we had multiple links we'd fall back to a "and two other pages", no-name, approach.
Andrew.
On 27 August 2013 22:41, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I am going to bet that if we exposed the name of the editor adding a link in page-linked notifications we will substantially increase their impact on editor engagement.
*Proposal*
Let's replace:
Rim Fire was linked from List of wildfires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires
with:
M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfiresehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires l http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfiresahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires n http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfiresihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires e http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfiresNhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires added a link to Rim Fire from List of wildfires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires
*Rationale*
• page-linked notifications will scale at a faster rate than Thank notifications (they are currently generated at a 2x rate and keep in mind only newbies are opted in by default) • as of August, 1 out of 5 recipients of page-linked notifications have a lifetime editcount smaller than 100 • these notifications mostly* deliver positive feedback: knowing that a page got linked somewhere else in Wikipedia is currently the only user-generated positive signal other than Thanks that I can receive on Wikipedia • for existing users (who by default are opted out from receiving page-linked notifications), exposing the author will provide readily available information on who's doing what • for newbies, we'll reinforce the perception that it's not Wikipedia creating a link but another human being who (1) liked your work enough to award you a link and (2) you may want to connect to as someone with similar interests (yeah no, need to wait until an interest graph is implemented) • we have solid evidence on the negative impact of automated, dehumanized messages
I really don't think we need to A/B test this but I wanted to hear from you if this change has enough support to be implemented and if there are other concerns.
Dario
- the main exception to look out for is links from project-namespace pages
where, for example, AfD notifications happen.
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