677821 - Allow users to "like" edits

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, enhancement)

Description

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Janet mentioned something like this a couple of weeks ago, and Sheppy mentioned it again in his user interview.

"We could consider tying in a liking system with specific edits, like when an article has been changed to correct a major error."

Comment 1

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Bumping the priority to match that of the dependent bug.

Comment 3

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Much more detail below. Thanks Janet!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=876972#c0

Comment 5

[Janet Swisher]

I disagree that this is a duplicate of bug 671766. That is a vague feature request that needs better specification, and is rightly closed. This is a specific request, as described in bug 876972.

Comment 6

[Janet Swisher]

FYI, as part of the UCD workshop at MozCamp Beta India, one of the ideas that was worked on was an app for Mozilla community members to "high-five" each other's contributions. CC'ing Holly and Tripad (not sure if Arun has a Bugzilla account.) So far it's just a concept, but it's similar in spirit to this feature request.

Comment 7

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

(In reply to Janet Swisher from comment #6)
> FYI, as part of the UCD workshop at MozCamp Beta India, one of the ideas
> that was worked on was an app for Mozilla community members to "high-five"
> each other's contributions. CC'ing Holly and Tripad (not sure if Arun has a
> Bugzilla account.) So far it's just a concept, but it's similar in spirit to
> this feature request.

If nothing else, I really like the idea of calling it a "high-five" rather than "like." It makes it more celebratory, and that's the sort of feeling I'd like to shoot for.

Comment 8

[tripad.mishra]

[^5ing myself on getting CCed for the first time :-P]

Here is my brief on the concept:

The concept revolves around the idea of instant recognition for every contribution. "Mo5" (as we called it) would be a standalone web-app that would aggregate all tweets with specific #tags (say #Mo5) [and/or also allow users to post directly on the site].

Other users would "High-Five" these contributions(posts) which would give the contributor/mozillian a sense of recognition amongst the community.

The popular High-fives can be featured on other (social media) channels (facebook, twitter, newsletters) giving more "bragging rights" to the contributor. The aggregated counts can be featured on contributors Mozillian's profile. 

Why I think this would work:
- Super simple to use
- More Post = More Bragging Rights = More Contribution
- Would help identify the less known/first-time contributors
- Would also motivate others to contribute

A wage wireframe we made at MozCamp : http://i.imgur.com/dXHEUXr.jpg 
(Image from Holly's blogpost)

Comment 9

[Janet Swisher]

This feature could be used in combination with bug 1036529 (List or feed of first-time contributions), to ensure that newcomers who make useful edits get prompt positive feedback.

Comment 10

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.