On 22 February 2017 at 16:40, David Goodman <dggenwp@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

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