Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Miscellaneous/Possibility of thanking for more subsequent edits

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Possibility of thanking for more subsequent edits

  • Problem: Somebody made subsequent edits in a single article in a short period of time. I see them in my watchlist and I can add "thanks" for a single edit. But when I open the diff (example), I must first go to history, select one of edits and thank for single edit only.
  • Proposed solution: For subsequent edits of one user, provide the [thank] link in the diff view.
  • Who would benefit: Editors and watchlist users
  • More comments: The notification could read "You received thanks for your edits in <compare link>".
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: JAn Dudík (talk) 08:20, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I would very much appreciate this. It's sort of stupid to thank someone for the last edit in a link, one that was probably a minor fix to spelling, when you really appreciated the series of edits. Daniel Case (talk) 00:00, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You could just thank the largest edit. I don't think thanking a range would be hard technically, but for a less experienced user the link to a combined diff might be less understandable than the diff to a single edit. They will still see the specifics of their last edit (timestamp, edit summary etc) as that's how range diffs are displayed. (The task for improving that is T14191.) --Tgr (talk) 03:55, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that I usually see only the last in a series of edits. Or no one edit is the one I found most helpful. Daniel Case (talk) 06:21, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting