On 22 February 2017 at 16:40, David Goodman <dggenwp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
what mattered to me was personal appreciation of my
work--just as it did
in my primary career. Not form notices, but individual public comments
that from people who showed that they understood. There is no way of
automating that. The virtues of wikiprojects (and local meetups) is of
extending that appreciation more broadly and more intensely.
Automate, no. Encourage, yes.
I can imagine a tool that located editors working mainly in the area of a
wikiproject (i.e. 3/5ths of their last 50 edits over three or more weeks,
maybe) who had not had much recent obvious attention from other editors (no
third-party edits to their talk page in that time) and once a week send
each person signed up to the wikiproject a notification with a link to
encourage the wikiproject participant to give that editor feedback on their
work.
In short, a private prompt to send a public feedback. 95% of the feedback
would probably be positive, but it might also find one or two of the more
subtle types of vandal.
cheers
stuart
--
...let us be heard from red core to black sky