Another fun experiment: a blood bank in Sweden texts donors to thank them after donating, and then AGAIN when the blood is actually used: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.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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