On 5 February 2015 at 18:14, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
<dancase(a)frontiernet.net> wrote:
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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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Fae