Problem: there's no "thank" button on the watchlist
Who would benefit: anyone who wants to thank someone for an edit or action without leaving the watchlist window
Proposed solution: add a thank link
More comments: I believe this has been requested before, but not implemented; it can't be that hard. Please also consider adding a "thank" link to Special:Log pages that don't have it – the block log, for example.
How do you know without viewing the diff that the edit is something that should by thanked? Even if it's an editor you know and generally trust they may have made a mistake - I can't see the use case of blind thanking. KylieTastic (talk) 19:25, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds interesting, the diff may have been viewed from Popups.js or a page that closed unexpectedly. But I am also worried about abuse as well as confused due to accidental clicking, so I expect this to be a feature disabled by default and low development priority. Therefore, some user scripts may be a better choice.--YFdyh000 (talk) 22:40, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see anyone objecting to supporting this on UserScript, but UserScript comes at a barrier of technical savvyness and not all editors are good at it. I'd say when people think one usecase is compelling enough, some of them make their userscript, some of them vote to support these usecases to be supported more natively by MediaWiki. At first Twinkle was a user script, it gets adopted later and can be turned on by built-in preferences. I don't view people supporting these features to be objecting to using userscripts. Xinbenlv (talk) 04:26, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The watchlist (and by extension recent changes) can feel cluttered as-is, so I'm not very eager to add more things that are always visible for everyone if it's primary aimed at people already using a script. Additionally, my intuition, in agreement with Braveheidi's comment, is that you should know more about an edit than just the editor, page, and edit summary before thanking, so that the action isn't done out of context. Hazard-SJ (talk) 04:57, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support In the watchlist it is already possible to view the diff, if the possibility of checking pages just by placing the mouse pointer over the internal link is enabled in your gadget. This proposal is excellent because it aims to include the Thank button within the watchlist itself. In Portuguese Wikipedia, this feature is only available to anyone who is viewing a diff, not within their own watchlist. WikiFermsg16:21, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - "Thanks" link should only appear next to a diff. If you need a userscript to see the diff, then you can implement Thanks inside the userscript, too. — Omegatron (talk) 15:22, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Imetsia (talk) 18:59, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Oppose If you are not viewing the diff, there is no reason to thank. --Braveheidi (talk) 21:03, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
