Wikipedia:THANK

We think it should be as easy to show appreciation for each other's work as it is to express disagreement or disapproval. Right now, it's easy to react to bad edits. All you do is hit undo (or rollback etc. if you can) on an article history page. This is a good thing, because it keeps the encyclopedia from being overrun.

However, if you thought an edit was good, there's not much you can do about it quickly. The only way we can tell others they did a good job is to go to their user talk page and post a message ( elaborates on this). This takes some effort, and doesn't really work for 'small' contributions – a set of typo fixes is most welcome, but maybe not worth a barnstar. What if you don't have time to write a personal note, yet still want to show your appreciation?

What's needed is a quick way to say "thanks" for an edit.

This feature, which we're just calling "", makes it easy for you to express your gratitude, using the notifications tool. It's a simple way to thank another editor for a revision, when viewing it in history or diff view, as shown below:

To make this possible, a 'Thank' link is shown on the history pages and diff page for each edit by a logged-in user (next to 'Undo'). This link has a title (displayed as a tooltip in most graphical browsers) that reads 'Send a thank you notification to this user.'. If you activate that link, a confirmation message appears saying, "Send public thanks for this edit?", with links for "yes" and "no". If you select "yes", the user's notifications will contain a message saying that the editor was thanked by you for that edit. Also the link on the history page changes to 'thanked'. If you select "no", the action is cancelled, and no message is sent. (To prevent abuse, you can't thank more than ten people in a minute.)

When someone thanks you, you get a notification in the personal menu next to your user name. The Thanks notification includes the name of the person who thanked you, a link to their user page, the name of the page you edited, a text snippet from your edit (or its summary), and a link to your edit's diff page. A "thanks for the thanks" response is not needed!

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