On 2 April 2012 23:40, Sarah <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > This study was shared with me this morning and discusses how "informal > > rewards" (barnstars) do make a significant impact on the contributions > and > > productivity of editors. > > > > > http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034358 > > > > It's a quick read, and helps to solidify the research and theories that a > > number of us have theorized about. > > > > Give a little wikilove today to a new experienced editor, it really does > > make a difference :) > > > > -Sarah > > > Hi Sarah, I've been meaning to ask this for awhile but didn't know > where. This seems as good an opportunity as any. :) > > Something I find offputting about the wikilove awards is that they > leave an edit summary of "new WikiLove message". I've only used it > once because of that, and if I use it again I'll paste in my own > message and image rather than use the template. > > Do you know whether there's a way individuals can change those edit > summaries, or can the template be tweaked centrally so it doesn't > automatically do that? I'm just thinking that if I was put off by the > edit summary, others might be too. > > Ah Sarah (SV Sarah), you've taken the words out of my mouth. I don't use WikiLove templates for this very reason, and I know that some people use them specifically because they know the edit summary will annoy the recipient.
Perhaps either a user-specified edit summary or a simple "New message for you" summary would be more...ummm....user-friendly? I quite like the concept and would probably use WikiLove if not for that summary. Risker/Anne
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