I dunno, guys. I certainly would take a talk page message over a mechanical "thank" any day of the week. More particularly, I notice a significant trend in using "thank" notifications to express agreement with people without having to actually say "yeah, I agree" somewhere.
That the loss of human contact, replacing it with another technological whizbang, is considered a net positive...well, I guess that's what can be expected from Wikimedia.
Risker
On 13 January 2014 17:36, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Indeed. I see a user's awesome edit, via a diff. I hit "thank". I hit "okay".
I see a user's awesome edit, via a diff. I hit the "talk" link, I hit the "new section" button, I fill in my message, I save my message.
Ultimately, though, this compares apples to oranges; nobody is "technologizing" this kind of user interaction because nobody is removing the ability to leave thankful talk page messages - indeed, I think they still serve a very useful purpose. I tend to thank people when they've made an edit I appreciate; I head over to their talkpage and give barnstars when this is indicative of wider good work on their part, or it's a /really/ great edit. All we've done is added some granularity to the system, reducing the barrier for small amounts of thanks.
On 13 January 2014 14:24, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not entirely certain it's a good idea to "technologize" such very
basic
user interactions. It takes as much work to "thank" someone using notifications as it does to leave them a talk page message.
That's empirically not true.
If I am on a page history or list of user contributions, it's takes just two clicks and you don't leave the page. To leave someone a Talk page message takes several new page loads and steps. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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