On Feb 5, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
<dancase(a)frontiernet.net> wrote:
Hmm, I think the list of most-thanked people
actually tells us more about
who is doing the thanking. I see at least 5 names on that list that I
recognise from my watchlist and therefore I may have thanked (statistically
unlikely I would recognise 5 out of 10 random Wikipedia user names) and 2 of
them I know I have thanked many times as we interact regularly in two
different topic areas.
My takeaway from that list, for enwiki at least, is that at least a few of the names on
it are admins very active in anti-vandalism work, so I would guess a fair amount of the
thanks they get are from people who've made reports to AIV and are thankful for the
ensuing block of the vandal (based on my experience from when I was doing that heavily).
For an interesting twist, the #1 on the most-thanked list for the English Wikipedia is a
previously banned editor who was unbanned and allowed back in. He has since become a
superb editor. Goes to show … :)
— Allie