Hi David, I am delighted that you are interested in extending the Thanks feature we released last year, so it can be used to thank more users.
I am no longer working on this project, but am not aware of any changes that would make it easier to thank anonymous users: IP addresses are still as unreliable now as they were a year ago. But I have Cc:d Danny Horn, the new product manager for core features like Flow and Notifications, so he can chime in from his viewpoint. Personally, I would love to see the Thanks feature be used even more than it is today, as it seems like such a civilized way to show appreciation to each other :) Cheers, Fabrice On May 20, 2014, at 7:56 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 May 2014 15:35, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've recently noticed the "Thank you" feature is only available for >> signed-in users, while anons cannot receive "thank yous". The >> anonymous users are often the ones that would need encouraging the >> most, so it would make sense to me to have this feature available to >> them too. >> Are there significant technical problems against such a change? > > > > I asked for this on the editor engagement list too. Fabrice said: [1] > > "Sadly, we couldn't make this feature available for anonymous users, > as you have to be registered to receive notifications right now. This > is because IP addresses cannot be trusted to deliver notifications to > the users they were intended to. I don't expect we'll change that > anytime soon. We should all encourage anonymous user to register if > they want to enjoy the same benefits as other members." > > Fabrice, is this still the case? Are there ways around this? > > * I suppose session cookies for anons just to possibly thank them is a > bit excessive. > * Could limit "thanks" to a short time after the edit (limiting either > sending or receiving). > > Any other ways we could implement this with minimal false-positives on > thanking people? If that's considered a problem :-) > > > - d. > > [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-July/000525.html _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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