On 20 May 2014 15:35, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
I've recently noticed the "Thank you" feature is only available for signed-in users, while anons cannot receive "thank yous". The anonymous users are often the ones that would need encouraging the most, so it would make sense to me to have this feature available to them too. Are there significant technical problems against such a change?
I asked for this on the editor engagement list too. Fabrice said: [1]
"Sadly, we couldn't make this feature available for anonymous users, as you have to be registered to receive notifications right now. This is because IP addresses cannot be trusted to deliver notifications to the users they were intended to. I don't expect we'll change that anytime soon. We should all encourage anonymous user to register if they want to enjoy the same benefits as other members."
Fabrice, is this still the case? Are there ways around this?
* I suppose session cookies for anons just to possibly thank them is a bit excessive. * Could limit "thanks" to a short time after the edit (limiting either sending or receiving).
Any other ways we could implement this with minimal false-positives on thanking people? If that's considered a problem :-)
- d.
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-July/000525.html