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.