[Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

[Liam Wyatt]

I think you deserve a barnstar (made via Wiki-love of course!) for that :-)
I've never really liked "Mank", but I do like a spread of some "Ind" with my
tea in the morning.

Seriously though... in Wikilove can't the logo (the heart) and all of the
individual awards (barnstars, food, animals) be changed on a per-wiki basis?
So if there's an icon that's more culturally appropriate in a different
language then it can be changed to that instead. If I recall correctly, the
Burmese Wikipedia uses "lotuses" (rather than barnstars) and the French
Wikipedia uses laurel wreaths. In those cases, for example, not only can
those awards be used instead of barnstars but a little icon of a lotus or a
laurel wreath could easily be used instead of a pink heart icon.

The point being that "leaving friendly messages with cute invented awards on
talkpages" is not an en.wp or American specific activity - most (all?) of
the different language wikis have something equivalent. All the WikiLove
tool does is make it easier to do and if the local community wants to use it
but wants to change the way the tool looks/feels then I don't think there's
any problem with that.

-Liam

On 29 October 2011 02:15, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson <cindamuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> I find pink hearts depressing. Red hearts are okay, though. Mankind. It's a
> troubling topic. Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at
> the word itself: “Mankind”. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words –
> “mank” and “ind”. What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why
> so is mankind. (I haven't been able to figure out the hearts thing yet, but
> I'm working on it.)
>
> Hey! Rather than a heart, can I get a four-leaf clover?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Etienne Beaule <betienne at bellaliant.net
> >wrote:
>
> > On incubator only, and probably the WikimediaIncubator extension.  All
> was
> > set up.
> >
> >
> > On 11-10-28 7:31 PM, "Brandon Harris" <bharris at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/28/11 3:27 PM, Etienne Beaule wrote:
> > >> It's disabled on certain wikis because of technical problems.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Oh? I wasn't aware that it had been disabled anywhere as yet.
> > >
> > > WikiLove was not rolled out "en mass"; the policy for deployment of the
> > > tool is that it is by request only, and the requesting wiki must:
> > >
> > > a) Make sure the tool is localized (via TranslateWiki);
> > > b) Make sure they have a local configuration; and
> > > c) Show community consensus.
> > >
> > > So if it was enabled and then *disabled*, I have not heard of this.  Is
> > > there a bug report I can look to?  Or if you know of a wiki where this
> > > is the case, I can do a search.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > -b.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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>
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>
> Cindy Ashley-Nelson
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