That shouldn't be the issue. The question is the effect. What would make you more pleased, a standard message/template that you did good, or a personal message from someone from who you know yourself that he watched over your work? Personally, I doubt that a simple template machine could lead to an increase. It simplifies the progress to leaving such a message. But it is also an double edged sword. While it is more likely that you will get a friendly message, the messages itself are weakened, since they look like a standard templates.
PS: As i wrote some month ago: "Damn. More kittens smashed at ground of the talk page, buried by the annoyed user. Great and important feature we haz now!" nya~ Am 31.10.2011 01:57, schrieb Mateus Nobre: > Totally disagree with you, Yaroslav. > > Do you really think a traditional (you know, traditional in Wikipedia > equivalent to bureaucratic) communication and social system, friendship-free, > at wikis reduces the efficiency? Why the friendship and camaraderie in > editions and talk should reduce the efficiency of quality? Why working in a > pleasant ambiete worse results. I think economists and business-men disagree > with you. > > For your e-mail I found that you are probably Russian. You probably have read > Tolstoi, Anna KarĂȘnina. Using a literary example, Lievin, the landowner, > greatly increased his profit by changing the method of work of his moujiks. > The moujiks used to work in bad taste and bad-tempered when just followind > orders in a bad envronment. When Lievin adopted a collaborative approach, > when the moujiks could work without the several rules at a amicable > environment, profits rose. > For Wikis is the same thing. Only the ideals are not enough. We have to have > a friendly, a pleasant, a nice environment. We've to make the time of > editions a good time to us. We've to smile editing Wikipedia. And know our > work is important to the community, moral support. Wikilove make Wikipedia > less a obligation and more a thing which we need every single day. This is > the point. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l