The amount of times I've viewed a photo on Wikipedia and thought wow and wanted to thank the contributor for putting it there for me to see.
Also it always seemed strange to me that I couldn't thank someone for creating a page... On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > The amount of times I've viewed a photo on Wikipedia and thought wow and > wanted to thank the contributor for putting it there for me to see. > > Also it always seemed strange to me that I couldn't thank someone for > creating a page. > > On 12 Sep 2014 15:50, "Matthew Flaschen" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 09/12/2014 02:28 PM, James Salsman wrote: >>> >>> How many estimated days of developer work is the "major can of worms" of >>> delivering thank notifications only, in a new way, to IPs? As cans of >>> worms go, I'm pretty sure it would not be on the major end of the scale, >>> if an experienced developer actually quantified it. >> >> >> I doubt we would make a whole new backend just for anon recipients of >> Thanks. That leaves only two possibilities: >> >> * Have Echo support anonymous recipients >> (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56828). Apparently Wikihow >> has code for this, and there is a WIP patch, but Wikihow doesn't have the >> exact same infrastructure as us. >> * Use an existing backend, probably user talk pages (or maybe Flow user >> talk pages, assuming anon talk pages are eventually converted over to this) >> >> Matt Flaschen >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EE mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee _______________________________________________ EE mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee
