I can't tell if this is intended to be an April 1st joke or if it's serious. In any case, I could see this being an interesting option for talk pages, particularly where Flow is enabled.
Pine On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It's well known that Wikipedia is facing threats from other social > networks and losing editors. While many of us spend time trying to make > Wikipedia different, we need to be cognizant that what other social > networks are doing is working. And if we can't beat them, we need to > join them. > > I've written a patch[1] that introduces a new feature to the Thanks > extension called "feelings". When hovering over a "thank" link, five > different emoji icons will pop up[2], representing five different > feelings: happy, love, surprise, anger, and fear. Editors can pick one > of those options instead of just a plain thanks, to indicate how they > really feel, which the recipient will see[3]. > > Of course, some might consider this feature to be controversial (I > suspect they would respond to my email with "anger" or "fear"), so I've > added a feature flag for it. Setting > $wgDontFixEditorRetentionProblem = true; > will disable it for your wiki. > > Please give the patch a try, I've only tested it in MonoBook so far, it > might need some extra CSS in Vector. > > [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/280961 > [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F3810964 > [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F3810963 > > -- Legoktm > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
