On 22 February 2017 at 16:40, David Goodman <[email protected]> wrote:
> what mattered to me was personal appreciation of my work--just as it did > in my primary career. Not form notices, but individual public comments > that from people who showed that they understood. There is no way of > automating that. The virtues of wikiprojects (and local meetups) is of > extending that appreciation more broadly and more intensely. > Automate, no. Encourage, yes. I can imagine a tool that located editors working mainly in the area of a wikiproject (i.e. 3/5ths of their last 50 edits over three or more weeks, maybe) who had not had much recent obvious attention from other editors (no third-party edits to their talk page in that time) and once a week send each person signed up to the wikiproject a notification with a link to encourage the wikiproject participant to give that editor feedback on their work. In short, a private prompt to send a public feedback. 95% of the feedback would probably be positive, but it might also find one or two of the more subtle types of vandal. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
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