Comments on: Beam me up, Jimmy: an experiment in thanking Wikipedians http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/ News from the Wikimedia Foundation and about the Wikimedia movement Fri, 17 May 2013 23:47:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: Semaine 15 – 1 238 028 articles « Les échos d'en bas http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-101380 Semaine 15 – 1 238 028 articles « Les échos d'en bas Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:45:24 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-101380 [...] (lien) ■ Les wikipédiens qui atteignent 1000 contributions seront peut être remerciés (lien) ■ écrire un article sur Wikipédia constitue un exercice souvent plus exigeant que [...]

]]> By: Maryana Pinchuk http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-101168 Maryana Pinchuk Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:46:47 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-101168 Better, Crisco? :)

]]> By: Crisco 1492 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-101159 Crisco 1492 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:59:33 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-101159 I mean, the image at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star_Trek_William_Shatner.JPG is free. We should stick with free images where available.

]]> By: Maryana Pinchuk http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-100666 Maryana Pinchuk Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:57:01 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-100666 Not sure where you got that quote or the idea that our thanks was automated, Marcus. Steven and I are thanking people personally, by hand, each day.

]]> By: Marcus Cyron http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-100653 Marcus Cyron Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:45:02 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-100653 “This automatic ‘thank you’ was presented to you by…” – what an insult. If there’s nobody who wants to say ‘thank you’ to me by him/herself, I don’t want to hear it. Not an automatic ‘thanks’! The imagination is so… – I feel shame for the person who was responsible for this idea. Dear Fundation – do you really think, this is the way to thank the authors? omg

]]> By: Michael Restivo http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-100311 Michael Restivo Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:51:02 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-100311 This recently-published research is relevant: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034358

]]> By: Mono http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-99602 Mono Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:51:43 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-99602 What about when I hit 20,000 edits on one project?

]]> By: Crisco 1492 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-99582 Crisco 1492 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:20:32 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-99582 The fair-use image should probably not be used here.

]]> By: Melvin Charles Dy http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-99538 Melvin Charles Dy Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:30:33 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-99538 I like it! It is indeed a great way for the admins in the office to take note of the people who help them out, all over the world. The choice of sound was rather arbitrary, but fun and, in a way, appropriate.

Plus, it’ll probably give Trekkie contributors out there a kick when they get their 1000th edit. The look of satisfaction as they hit the “Save edits” button…

]]> By: Steven Walling http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/09/an-experiment-in-finding-and-thanking-wikipedians/comment-page-1/#comment-99532 Steven Walling Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:10:16 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11864#comment-99532 Bodnotbod: At this point it’s only the first thousand mainspace edits. But I like the idea for more metrics like that.

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