Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Fæ]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks

The 'Thanks report' is up and running again, after being out of action
for the last few months. This seems down to time-outs when running the
query for wikidata, along with Faebot being throttled on labs (now
relaxed) and the more recent account problems needing rolling
automated log-outs for everyone. The newest requested addition is the
Outreach wiki.

See the meta page link above if you would like another wiki added
(after making sure your community is happy with the idea), or want
your account to be opted out of a current report.

Thanks,
Fae

On 23 February 2015 at 15:57, Fæ  wrote:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
>
> I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10 "thankers" /
> "thankees" with an index to the different project reports on the above
> link. These have been generated retrospectively for 2014 and I will
> shortly set this up on WMF labs to run at the beginning of each month
> to add last month's results.*
>
> Rather than running this automatically for several hundred projects, I
> am happy to add projects on request (so long as the thanks extension
> is being regularly used by more than 10 people!). Just drop a note on
> my meta talk page to request the addition. I have haphazardly picked 6
> of the busiest projects to get started on, mainly as a multi-language
> test, not because I favour one language Wikipedia over another. :-)
>
> Time for someone to create a "thank you barnstar of super thanks" ?
...

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Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Fæ]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks

I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10 "thankers" /
"thankees" with an index to the different project reports on the above
link. These have been generated retrospectively for 2014 and I will
shortly set this up on WMF labs to run at the beginning of each month
to add last month's results.*

Rather than running this automatically for several hundred projects, I
am happy to add projects on request (so long as the thanks extension
is being regularly used by more than 10 people!). Just drop a note on
my meta talk page to request the addition. I have haphazardly picked 6
of the busiest projects to get started on, mainly as a multi-language
test, not because I favour one language Wikipedia over another. :-)

Time for someone to create a "thank you barnstar of super thanks" ?

This is one of many ad-hoc reports run as Faebot, but if it becomes
especially useful or critical to outreach projects I'll consider
moving a stable version to a special bot account or similar.

* - At the time of writing, the tables for 2014 are being generated.
This may take the rest of the day to complete! If your project has
recently been added, the reports might have to wait for the next
monthly run depending on how much free wiki-time I have.

Fae

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Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[John Mark Vandenberg]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Alison Cassidy  wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Alison Cassidy  wrote:
>
> For an interesting twist, the #1 on the most-thanked list for the English
> Wikipedia is a previously banned editor who was unbanned and allowed back
> in. He has since become a superb editor. Goes to show … :)
>
>
> Actually, the most thank-y :) My bad!

Phew, I was wondering if we were looking at the same list.  Worth
noting that the most thanked on en.wp in Jan 2015 is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ryulong

who was recently banned by ArbCom 's close of the GamerGate case.

It would be interesting to see who has been most thanked / thank-y for
each month of 2014.

--
John Vandenberg

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Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Alison Cassidy]

> On Feb 5, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Alison Cassidy  wrote:
> 
> For an interesting twist, the #1 on the most-thanked list for the English 
> Wikipedia is a previously banned editor who was unbanned and allowed back in. 
> He has since become a superb editor. Goes to show … :)

Actually, the most thank-y :) My bad!

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Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Alison Cassidy]

> On Feb 5, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case 
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hmm, I think the list of most-thanked people actually tells us more about
>> who is doing the thanking. I see at least 5 names on that list that I
>> recognise from my watchlist and therefore I may have thanked (statistically
>> unlikely I would recognise 5 out of 10 random Wikipedia user names) and 2 of
>> them I know I have thanked many times as we interact regularly in two
>> different topic areas.
> 
> My takeaway from that list, for enwiki at least, is that at least a few of 
> the names on it are admins very active in anti-vandalism work, so I would 
> guess a fair amount of the thanks they get are from people who've made 
> reports to AIV and are thankful for the ensuing block of the vandal (based on 
> my experience from when I was doing that heavily).

For an interesting twist, the #1 on the most-thanked list for the English 
Wikipedia is a previously banned editor who was unbanned and allowed back in. 
He has since become a superb editor. Goes to show … :)

— Allie
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Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Daniel and Elizabeth Case]

Hmm, I think the list of most-thanked people actually tells us more about
who is doing the thanking. I see at least 5 names on that list that I
recognise from my watchlist and therefore I may have thanked (statistically
unlikely I would recognise 5 out of 10 random Wikipedia user names) and 2 
of

them I know I have thanked many times as we interact regularly in two
different topic areas.


My takeaway from that list, for enwiki at least, is that at least a few of 
the names on it are admins very active in anti-vandalism work, so I would 
guess a fair amount of the thanks they get are from people who've made 
reports to AIV and are thankful for the ensuing block of the vandal (based 
on my experience from when I was doing that heavily).


Daniel Case 



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Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Kerry Raymond]

Hmm, I think the list of most-thanked people actually tells us more about
who is doing the thanking. I see at least 5 names on that list that I
recognise from my watchlist and therefore I may have thanked (statistically
unlikely I would recognise 5 out of 10 random Wikipedia user names) and 2 of
them I know I have thanked many times as we interact regularly in two
different topic areas.

Kerry

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On 5 February 2015 at 18:14, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
 wrote:
...
> Is it possible to break down the edits that get thanked by namespace, or
> even a particular page? That would be interesting.
>
> And, overall, I am +1 to the idea that it makes Wikipedia a better place.
My
> only suggested improvement would be a "you're welcome" button, since I
> receive more thanks than I generally give and that makes me look a little
> standoffish. (And while we're at that, is there a stat on which editors
get
> thanked the most?)

For the first bit:
Yes, the relevant table is described at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Logging_table> and includes
log_namespace. Lots of ways of slicing the data are possible, though I
suggest any metric for 'niceness' is kept very simple so that it is
well understood. I.e. 100 thanks messages to a user, is much easier to
understand than ratios of several different things because they are
there.

For the last bit, here are the results:

Top 10 *most thanked* users in Jan 2015:

English Wikipedia:

351, Ryulong
212, Niceguyedc
151, Ssven2
119, Materialscientist
111, HJ Mitchell
100, Ser Amantio di Nicolao
89, GoingBatty
89, Drmies
87, John of Reading
79, Rocketrod1960

Wikimedia Commons:

47,  Steinsplitter
44,  INeverCry
44,  Thibaut120094
44,  1989
37,  Yann
32,  Medium69
27,  Be..anyone
26,  Brackenheim
22,  ArionEstar
21,  Marcus_Cyron

This was posted at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076737.html
where you can find the report link.

Fae

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Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Fæ]

On 5 February 2015 at 18:14, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
 wrote:
...
> Is it possible to break down the edits that get thanked by namespace, or
> even a particular page? That would be interesting.
>
> And, overall, I am +1 to the idea that it makes Wikipedia a better place. My
> only suggested improvement would be a "you're welcome" button, since I
> receive more thanks than I generally give and that makes me look a little
> standoffish. (And while we're at that, is there a stat on which editors get
> thanked the most?)

For the first bit:
Yes, the relevant table is described at
 and includes
log_namespace. Lots of ways of slicing the data are possible, though I
suggest any metric for 'niceness' is kept very simple so that it is
well understood. I.e. 100 thanks messages to a user, is much easier to
understand than ratios of several different things because they are
there.

For the last bit, here are the results:

Top 10 *most thanked* users in Jan 2015:

English Wikipedia:

351, Ryulong
212, Niceguyedc
151, Ssven2
119, Materialscientist
111, HJ Mitchell
100, Ser Amantio di Nicolao
89, GoingBatty
89, Drmies
87, John of Reading
79, Rocketrod1960

Wikimedia Commons:

47,  Steinsplitter
44,  INeverCry
44,  Thibaut120094
44,  1989
37,  Yann
32,  Medium69
27,  Be..anyone
26,  Brackenheim
22,  ArionEstar
21,  Marcus_Cyron

This was posted at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076737.html
where you can find the report link.

Fae

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Re: [Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Daniel and Elizabeth Case]

After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have
queried the top 10 users of the thanks feature last month, on both the
English Wikipedia and Commons. Snapshot image attached and report link
below.


I note that the Commons list is heavy with people like myself who nominate, 
and vote on, featured picture candidates. I have learned there that it is 
common to thank someone who votes in support of your nomination (nothing 
wrong with that). I put that practice to good use in thanking everyone who 
voted for my own recent nomination 
(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Chapel_ceiling_rosette,_Greenwich_Hospital,_London_version_2.jpg_), 
and was karmically rewarded with the first-ever featuring of an image I took 
myself (though I should also really thank another editor who did some late 
perspective correction on it).


Is it possible to break down the edits that get thanked by namespace, or 
even a particular page? That would be interesting.


And, overall, I am +1 to the idea that it makes Wikipedia a better place. My 
only suggested improvement would be a "you're welcome" button, since I 
receive more thanks than I generally give and that makes me look a little 
standoffish. (And while we're at that, is there a stat on which editors get 
thanked the most?)


Daniel Case


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[Gendergap] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Fæ]

Hi,

After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have
queried the top 10 users of the thanks feature last month, on both the
English Wikipedia and Commons. Snapshot image attached and report link
below.

Perhaps someone might think of a suitable barnstar and award these
folks for "being nice"? :-)

Link: 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:F%C3%A6/sandbox&oldid=149050523

P.S. This is a long query to run, taking 20 to 30 minutes due to the
nature of the logging tables. However if someone wanted to make a
monthly summary on-wiki somewhere, part of an active "be nice"
campaign, I would be happy to set up an automated monthly report (if
someone discovers this is already reported somewhere, that's cool we
can use that).

Fae
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