[Tagging] An after-burner meta-discussion

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 03:46 2022-02-15, Martin Koppenhoefer đã viết:
> Some time ago, I proposed to add a simple rating system for wiki edits 
> (thumbs up / thumbs down), so that consensus with edits could be 
> measured and authors could gain or loose reputation. Later a system was 
> implemented which allows to thank the author of a wiki edit. 
> Unfortunately, as stats are not visible (you cannot see how many thanks 
> an authors has received, neither in total nor for a specific edit, nor 
> does it seem the authors themselves are notified, or maybe nobody ever 
> thanked me), and as there is still no way to express dissent with an 
> edit (apart from discussing it and or reverting it), it currently does 
> not seem to do anything.
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dieterdreist/diary/44271 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dieterdreist/diary/44271>

The lack of a Chide button is intentional. :-) As others have mentioned, 
the wiki's Thanks extension is not a reputation system. It isn't 
designed to amplify edits, even good ones. It's meant to give off good 
vibes and allow the community to reward good, constructive behavior on a 
one-to-one basis, especially among newcomers who may have less 
self-confidence in their edits.

On wikis where the Thanks extension is installed, you're still expected 
to express disapproval with someone else's edits by contacting them and 
explaining your concerns. Thanking is usually more self-explanatory, so 
the Thanks button just removes some of the inhibition to doing so.

The wiki's notifications feature tells you when someone thanks you, and 
you can configure the wiki to send you an e-mail if you don't visit the 
wiki regularly. [1] There is supposed to be a public audit log of users 
thanking other users, but it isn't working on the OSM Wiki for some 
reason. The log is completely empty. [2]

A few years ago, I very casually floated the idea of adapting the Thanks 
mechanism to OSM changesets, but it would take someone other than me to 
make it a reality. [3] It would complement OSMCha's 
thumbs-up/thumbs-down rating system, not replace it.

[1] 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Log/thanks
[3] https://github.com/osmlab/osm-planning/issues/23

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