On 5 February 2015 at 18:14, Daniel and Elizabeth Case dancase@frontiernet.net wrote: ...
Is it possible to break down the edits that get thanked by namespace, or even a particular page? That would be interesting.
And, overall, I am +1 to the idea that it makes Wikipedia a better place. My only suggested improvement would be a "you're welcome" button, since I receive more thanks than I generally give and that makes me look a little standoffish. (And while we're at that, is there a stat on which editors get thanked the most?)
For the first bit: Yes, the relevant table is described at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Logging_table and includes log_namespace. Lots of ways of slicing the data are possible, though I suggest any metric for 'niceness' is kept very simple so that it is well understood. I.e. 100 thanks messages to a user, is much easier to understand than ratios of several different things because they are there.
For the last bit, here are the results:
Top 10 *most thanked* users in Jan 2015:
English Wikipedia:
351, Ryulong 212, Niceguyedc 151, Ssven2 119, Materialscientist 111, HJ Mitchell 100, Ser Amantio di Nicolao 89, GoingBatty 89, Drmies 87, John of Reading 79, Rocketrod1960
Wikimedia Commons:
47, Steinsplitter 44, INeverCry 44, Thibaut120094 44, 1989 37, Yann 32, Medium69 27, Be..anyone 26, Brackenheim 22, ArionEstar 21, Marcus_Cyron
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