On Sun Oct 26 2014 at 12:45:55 PM Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
In the Hebrew Wikipedia there's a discussion about
the "Thanks" feature,
which raises the following confusion among other things: Why does the
person who is sending the thank-you gets a message saying "$1 was notified
that you liked his/her edit.", and the person who receives the thank-you
notification sees a message that uses the verb "thank"?
So this message, called "thanks-thanked-notice" in the code, appears to
have been added awhile back without sufficient design review or
input.[1][2] It's not part of the original design requirements for Thanks.
It's unclear from the bug or commit that added it exactly why we need this
message, or where it appears. Do you get this via your notifications tray?
I'd support simply removing this notification. The UI already makes clear
in-line when a thanks was sent. Unless people really requested a read
status notification and find it valuable, we should just defer to keeping
notifications volume low.
1.
https://git.wikimedia.org/commitdiff/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FThanks/ab8b78…
2.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63509