File Notifications ("Your file was used") and File Feedback ("Thanks", "Favourited") are on the Multimedia Team's planned features list, at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/2014-15_Goals#Projects (Plus older notes at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Feature_ideas#File_notifications )
There is already a "Thank" link in the history page, for the first diff of every page, so we can already do that. Eg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Ligne_Petite_Ceinture_p... but yes, for Files it would be nice to make it less hidden away. Perhaps "Thank" links at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ligne_Petite_Ceinture_parc_Montsouri... or similar. (because we'll occasionally want to Thank for a later-version) They were considering putting a Thank link in the MV, https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Multimedia_Vision_2016.pdf&... but I'm not sure if that's still the case.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org 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 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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