File Notifications ("Your file was used") and File Feedback ("Thanks",
"Favourited") are on the Multimedia Team's planned features list, at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/2014-15_Goals#Projects (Plus
older notes at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Feature_ideas#File_notifications )
There is already a "Thank" link in the history page, for the first diff of
every page, so we can already do that. Eg.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Ligne_Petite_Ceinture_parc_Montsouris_Paris.jpg&action=history
but yes, for Files it would be nice to make it less hidden away.
Perhaps "Thank" links at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ligne_Petite_Ceinture_parc_Montsouris_Paris.jpg#filehistory
or similar. (because we'll occasionally want to Thank for a later-version)
They were considering putting a Thank link in the MV,
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Multimedia_Vision_2016.pdf&page=9
but I'm not sure if that's still the case.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:20 AM, 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 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
> >>
> >>
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