On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
This study was shared with me this morning and discusses how "informal rewards" (barnstars) do make a significant impact on the contributions and productivity of editors.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034358
It's a quick read, and helps to solidify the research and theories that a number of us have theorized about.
Give a little wikilove today to a new experienced editor, it really does make a difference :)
-Sarah
Hi Sarah, I've been meaning to ask this for awhile but didn't know where. This seems as good an opportunity as any. :)
Something I find offputting about the wikilove awards is that they leave an edit summary of "new WikiLove message". I've only used it once because of that, and if I use it again I'll paste in my own message and image rather than use the template.
Do you know whether there's a way individuals can change those edit summaries, or can the template be tweaked centrally so it doesn't automatically do that? I'm just thinking that if I was put off by the edit summary, others might be too.
Sarah