To be totally honest, I think this is a great idea, but it should use emojis. Github added this for PRs and messages for instance, and it's amazingly helpful:
https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments Slack has the same thing. It's fun, people like it, and it tends to encourage better interactions. On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't tell if this is intended to be an April 1st joke or if it's > serious. In any case, I could see this being an interesting option for talk > pages, particularly where Flow is enabled. > > Pine > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Legoktm <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > It's well known that Wikipedia is facing threats from other social > > networks and losing editors. While many of us spend time trying to make > > Wikipedia different, we need to be cognizant that what other social > > networks are doing is working. And if we can't beat them, we need to > > join them. > > > > I've written a patch[1] that introduces a new feature to the Thanks > > extension called "feelings". When hovering over a "thank" link, five > > different emoji icons will pop up[2], representing five different > > feelings: happy, love, surprise, anger, and fear. Editors can pick one > > of those options instead of just a plain thanks, to indicate how they > > really feel, which the recipient will see[3]. > > > > Of course, some might consider this feature to be controversial (I > > suspect they would respond to my email with "anger" or "fear"), so I've > > added a feature flag for it. Setting > > $wgDontFixEditorRetentionProblem = true; > > will disable it for your wiki. > > > > Please give the patch a try, I've only tested it in MonoBook so far, it > > might need some extra CSS in Vector. > > > > [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/280961 > > [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F3810964 > > [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F3810963 > > > > -- Legoktm > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
