It should be possible to inform Commons uploaders if their images are used
on Wikipedia, and include the language. This would be especially helpful
for Commons uploading contests such as Wiki Loves Monuments
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2017-02-21 17:56 GMT+02:00 Melody Kramer (ET) <mkramer(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Another fun experiment: a blood bank in Sweden
texts donors to thank them
after donating, and then AGAIN when the blood is actually used:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blood-donors-
in-sweden-get-a-text-message-whenever-someone-is-helped-
with-their-blood-10310101.html
So basically, they're reminding people of how their contribution is used.
Ohhhhhhh, thank you so much for this example. How I wish we did more of
that :/
As a volunteer I've been translating strings for MediaWiki and its
extensions for over eight years, and I get a happiness shot every time I
see my string used on the live site. It still excites me after thousands of
strings just as it did the first time in 2009.
I wish we told people that the article they wrote was read by X people,
for example (
WordPress.com and Quora do it nicely). Or to tell them that it
was translated to other languages (our team plans to do it as part of
Content Translation, but it wasn't done yet).
When I get code patches from volunteers, I try to notify them when their
fix goes live on
wikipedia.org or if it helped solving another problem
(e.g.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106632#3042650 ), but I don't do
it systematically enough, and it's certainly not a process that everybody
follows.
We really need to do it.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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