Hi,
After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have queried the top 10 users of the thanks feature last month, on both the English Wikipedia and Commons. Snapshot image attached and report link below.
Perhaps someone might think of a suitable barnstar and award these folks for "being nice"? :-)
Link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:F%C3%A6/sandbox&oldi...
P.S. This is a long query to run, taking 20 to 30 minutes due to the nature of the logging tables. However if someone wanted to make a monthly summary on-wiki somewhere, part of an active "be nice" campaign, I would be happy to set up an automated monthly report (if someone discovers this is already reported somewhere, that's cool we can use that).
Fae
After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have queried the top 10 users of the thanks feature last month, on both the English Wikipedia and Commons. Snapshot image attached and report link below.
I note that the Commons list is heavy with people like myself who nominate, and vote on, featured picture candidates. I have learned there that it is common to thank someone who votes in support of your nomination (nothing wrong with that). I put that practice to good use in thanking everyone who voted for my own recent nomination (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:...), and was karmically rewarded with the first-ever featuring of an image I took myself (though I should also really thank another editor who did some late perspective correction on it).
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?)
Daniel Case
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
This was posted at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076737.html where you can find the report link.
Fae
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.
Kerry
-----Original Message----- From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Fæ Sent: Friday, 6 February 2015 4:31 AM To: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participationof women within Wikimedia projects. Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?
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
This was posted at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076737.html where you can find the report link.
Fae
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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).
Daniel Case
On Feb 5, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case dancase@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
On Feb 5, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Alison Cassidy cooties@mac.com wrote:
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 … :)
Actually, the most thank-y :) My bad!
— Allie
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Alison Cassidy cooties@mac.com wrote:
On Feb 5, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Alison Cassidy cooties@mac.com wrote:
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 … :)
Actually, the most thank-y :) My bad!
Phew, I was wondering if we were looking at the same list. Worth noting that the most thanked on en.wp in Jan 2015 is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ryulong
who was recently banned by ArbCom 's close of the GamerGate case.
It would be interesting to see who has been most thanked / thank-y for each month of 2014.
-- John Vandenberg
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10 "thankers" / "thankees" with an index to the different project reports on the above link. These have been generated retrospectively for 2014 and I will shortly set this up on WMF labs to run at the beginning of each month to add last month's results.*
Rather than running this automatically for several hundred projects, I am happy to add projects on request (so long as the thanks extension is being regularly used by more than 10 people!). Just drop a note on my meta talk page to request the addition. I have haphazardly picked 6 of the busiest projects to get started on, mainly as a multi-language test, not because I favour one language Wikipedia over another. :-)
Time for someone to create a "thank you barnstar of super thanks" ?
This is one of many ad-hoc reports run as Faebot, but if it becomes especially useful or critical to outreach projects I'll consider moving a stable version to a special bot account or similar.
* - At the time of writing, the tables for 2014 are being generated. This may take the rest of the day to complete! If your project has recently been added, the reports might have to wait for the next monthly run depending on how much free wiki-time I have.
Fae
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
The 'Thanks report' is up and running again, after being out of action for the last few months. This seems down to time-outs when running the query for wikidata, along with Faebot being throttled on labs (now relaxed) and the more recent account problems needing rolling automated log-outs for everyone. The newest requested addition is the Outreach wiki.
See the meta page link above if you would like another wiki added (after making sure your community is happy with the idea), or want your account to be opted out of a current report.
Thanks, Fae
On 23 February 2015 at 15:57, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10 "thankers" / "thankees" with an index to the different project reports on the above link. These have been generated retrospectively for 2014 and I will shortly set this up on WMF labs to run at the beginning of each month to add last month's results.*
Rather than running this automatically for several hundred projects, I am happy to add projects on request (so long as the thanks extension is being regularly used by more than 10 people!). Just drop a note on my meta talk page to request the addition. I have haphazardly picked 6 of the busiest projects to get started on, mainly as a multi-language test, not because I favour one language Wikipedia over another. :-)
Time for someone to create a "thank you barnstar of super thanks" ?
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