File Notifications ("Your file was used") and File Feedback
("Thanks",
"Favourited") are on the Multimedia Team's planned features list, at
)
There is already a "Thank" link in the history page, for the first diff of
every page, so we can already do that. Eg.
but yes, for Files it would be nice to make it less hidden away.
Perhaps "Thank" links at
or similar. (because we'll occasionally want to Thank for a later-version)
They were considering putting a Thank link in the MV,
but I'm not sure if that's still the case.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:20 AM, 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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