Hmm, I think the list of most-thanked people actually tells us more about who is doing the thanking. I see at least 5 names on that list that I recognise from my watchlist and therefore I may have thanked (statistically unlikely I would recognise 5 out of 10 random Wikipedia user names) and 2 of them I know I have thanked many times as we interact regularly in two different topic areas.
Kerry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fæ Sent: Friday, 6 February 2015 4:31 AM To: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participationof women within Wikimedia projects. Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ? On 5 February 2015 at 18:14, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <[email protected]> wrote: ... > Is it possible to break down the edits that get thanked by namespace, or > even a particular page? That would be interesting. > > And, overall, I am +1 to the idea that it makes Wikipedia a better place. My > only suggested improvement would be a "you're welcome" button, since I > receive more thanks than I generally give and that makes me look a little > standoffish. (And while we're at that, is there a stat on which editors get > thanked the most?) For the first bit: Yes, the relevant table is described at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Logging_table> and includes log_namespace. Lots of ways of slicing the data are possible, though I suggest any metric for 'niceness' is kept very simple so that it is well understood. I.e. 100 thanks messages to a user, is much easier to understand than ratios of several different things because they are there. For the last bit, here are the results: Top 10 *most thanked* users in Jan 2015: English Wikipedia: 351, Ryulong 212, Niceguyedc 151, Ssven2 119, Materialscientist 111, HJ Mitchell 100, Ser Amantio di Nicolao 89, GoingBatty 89, Drmies 87, John of Reading 79, Rocketrod1960 Wikimedia Commons: 47, Steinsplitter 44, INeverCry 44, Thibaut120094 44, 1989 37, Yann 32, Medium69 27, Be..anyone 26, Brackenheim 22, ArionEstar 21, Marcus_Cyron This was posted at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076737.html where you can find the report link. Fae _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
