Re: [WikiEN-l] WikiLove Extension on Prototype

2011-06-25 Thread MuZemike
As long as we don't start giving newcomers a false sense of appreciation 
or accomplishment, which will end up hurting them more in the future, as 
opposed to letting them know right away what they may have make mistakes on.

This doesn't mean newcomers shouldn't be praised when they *do* 
accomplish something genuine and good.

-MuZemike

On 6/24/2011 7:59 PM, Howie Fung wrote:
 Hi all,

 We’re testing a new tool for expressing appreciation to other users and are
 hoping that you’ll help test it and give us feedback. You can find a more
 detailed rationale for this tool, as well as instructions for testing, in
 our blog post here:

 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/24/wikilove-an-experiment-in-appreciation/

 You may test the feature by following the instructions here:

 http://prototype.wikimedia.org/release-en/WikiLove

 For more information on the Wikilove extension, please visit [1] and [2]

 Thanks for your help!

 Howie

 [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove_1.0
 [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiLove
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Re: [WikiEN-l] WikiLove Extension on Prototype

2011-06-25 Thread Fred Bauder
Naw, let's trick em. Let's pretend to be friendly and appreciative for at
least two years.

Fred

 As long as we don't start giving newcomers a false sense of appreciation
 or accomplishment, which will end up hurting them more in the future, as
 opposed to letting them know right away what they may have make mistakes
 on.

 This doesn't mean newcomers shouldn't be praised when they *do*
 accomplish something genuine and good.

 -MuZemike

 On 6/24/2011 7:59 PM, Howie Fung wrote:
 Hi all,

 We’re testing a new tool for expressing appreciation to other users and
 are
 hoping that you’ll help test it and give us feedback. You can find a
 more
 detailed rationale for this tool, as well as instructions for testing,
 in
 our blog post here:

 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/24/wikilove-an-experiment-in-appreciation/

 You may test the feature by following the instructions here:

 http://prototype.wikimedia.org/release-en/WikiLove

 For more information on the Wikilove extension, please visit [1] and
 [2]

 Thanks for your help!

 Howie

 [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove_1.0
 [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiLove
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