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(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
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_wildfires>e<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires>
l
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires>a<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires>
n
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires>i<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires>
e
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires>N<http://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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