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(a)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 &lt;dancase(a)frontiernet.net&gt; wrote: ... My get 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 _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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 Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Alison Cassidy &lt;cooties(a)mac.com&gt; wrote: 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 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 &lt;faewik(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: ... -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae