To be totally honest, I think this is a great idea, but it should use emojis. Github added this for PRs and messages for instance, and it's amazingly helpful:
https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comme...
Slack has the same thing. It's fun, people like it, and it tends to encourage better interactions.
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I can't tell if this is intended to be an April 1st joke or if it's serious. In any case, I could see this being an interesting option for talk pages, particularly where Flow is enabled.
Pine
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It's well known that Wikipedia is facing threats from other social networks and losing editors. While many of us spend time trying to make Wikipedia different, we need to be cognizant that what other social networks are doing is working. And if we can't beat them, we need to join them.
I've written a patch[1] that introduces a new feature to the Thanks extension called "feelings". When hovering over a "thank" link, five different emoji icons will pop up[2], representing five different feelings: happy, love, surprise, anger, and fear. Editors can pick one of those options instead of just a plain thanks, to indicate how they really feel, which the recipient will see[3].
Of course, some might consider this feature to be controversial (I suspect they would respond to my email with "anger" or "fear"), so I've added a feature flag for it. Setting $wgDontFixEditorRetentionProblem = true; will disable it for your wiki.
Please give the patch a try, I've only tested it in MonoBook so far, it might need some extra CSS in Vector.
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/280961 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F3810964 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F3810963
-- Legoktm
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