[Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Steven Walling, 13/01/2014 23:24:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not entirely certain it's a good idea to "technologize" such very basic
>> user interactions.  It takes as much work to "thank" someone using
>> notifications as it does to leave them a talk page message.
>>
>
> That's empirically not true.
>
> If I am on a page history or list of user contributions, it's takes just
> two clicks and you don't leave the page. To leave someone a Talk page
> message takes several new page loads and steps.

This is technically not true. Gadgets such as the navigation popups or 
LiveRC can places dozens of message types on talk pages with one or two 
clicks, including {{thanks}} or {{grazie}} (for IPs) on it.wiki. See 
screenshot: <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LiveRC-anteprima.jpg>

Nemo