The amount of times I've viewed a photo on Wikipedia and thought wow and wanted to thank the contributor for putting it there for me to see.
Also it always seemed strange to me that I couldn't thank someone for creating a page...
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
The amount of times I've viewed a photo on Wikipedia and thought wow and wanted to thank the contributor for putting it there for me to see.
Also it always seemed strange to me that I couldn't thank someone for creating a page.
On 12 Sep 2014 15:50, "Matthew Flaschen" mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 09/12/2014 02:28 PM, James Salsman wrote:
How many estimated days of developer work is the "major can of worms" of delivering thank notifications only, in a new way, to IPs? As cans of worms go, I'm pretty sure it would not be on the major end of the scale, if an experienced developer actually quantified it.
I doubt we would make a whole new backend just for anon recipients of Thanks. That leaves only two possibilities:
- Have Echo support anonymous recipients
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56828). Apparently Wikihow has code for this, and there is a WIP patch, but Wikihow doesn't have the exact same infrastructure as us.
- Use an existing backend, probably user talk pages (or maybe Flow user
talk pages, assuming anon talk pages are eventually converted over to this)
Matt Flaschen
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