On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Sage Ross <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yes, please. I'm often frustrated at not being able to use Thanks from
> my watchlist.
>

+1


> Building in both Thanks and a reply feature for individual edits is
> something that Wiki Education Foundation is planning to try for the
> RecentActivityFeed course monitoring tool we're working on. In its
> first iteration [1], the feed will include inline diffs (as adapted
> from Writ Keeper's awesome user script [2]), so that users can see the
> details of edits without leaving the page. It makes sense from there
> to make it easier to both Thank users and post messages related to
> individual diffs.
>
> I suspect it would be a major boon to editor engagement — for Thanks
> usage in particular — if the inline diffs concept was adapted to be an
> easily accessible option for all users.
>
> [1] =
> http://education.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Education_Program:WikiWorks/MediaWiki_Extension_Design_(Fall_2014)&days=30&from=&action=epcourseactivity
> [2] =
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Writ_Keeper/Scripts/inlineDiffDocs
>
> -Sage
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > So I think by now, most of us have experienced the positive impact of the
> > Thanks tool (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Thanks) on our
> wikis.
> >
> > I'd like to hear thoughts about adding the function to more places.
> Thanks
> > currently visible on...
> >
> > - Page histories
> > - Diffs
> >
> > I'd like to propose that anywhere that I can undo or rollback an edit, I
> > should be able to thank someone. If that location provides me enough
> > information to revert an edit, surely it provides me enough context to
> show
> > gratitude as well. With that proposal in mind, some suggestions of new
> > locations includes...
> >
> > - Watchlist
> > - RecentChanges
> >
> > A slightly expanded scope might also include all public logs (move,
> delete,
> > patrol, etc.). This is requested already at
> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58485 but may be harder
> to
> > do.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Steven Walling,
> > Product Manager
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/
> >
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