https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56818
--- Comment #4 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #3) > We also discussed it was a shame to hide this information. Exposing the title > really highlights how people are collaborating and brings a much needed (IMO) > human element to that process rather than hiding away these collaborations > between people deeply hidden away in the existing MediaWiki interfaces. > personally I dont think any of Wikipedia or other projects should have > private > elements it seems anti the principles. people should just not log in if they > want to thank in private or just not thank full stop. just my thoughts here > but > I would love to be involved in a larger review of this decision... I should point out that it's not strictly private, in the sense that you can look up who thanked me, via something like https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=thanks&user=Steven+Walling&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter= However, we have made a design decision not to make thanks publicly prominent, in order to make people feel comfortable thanking each other liberally. There's not 100% agreement about the way thanks works, internally at the WMF or within the community, so Jon's not alone in his feelings by any means. But it was a conscious choice made by Fabrice, Kaldari, Vibha, and all those involved with designing thanks. I support it fervently because they made this choice in order to accomplish a design goal: getting people to thank each other *a lot* and not hesitate to do so. They were successful with that, and we shouldn't second guess them in hindsight based on principles or ideology. This is similar to the decision to disallow anonymous editing on mobile for now: you can argue this violates our ideals and is outside the norm, but we did it in a special circumstance in order to accomplish a goal (mobile editing) that is now doing very positive things for the encyclopedia and for the Wikipedia community. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
