I really really wish we could thanks IPs too. It sucks to treat them like second class citizens.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > Something like the "new message" orange bar :) > > I guess that designers and Growth people may know an answer, but all > thoughts are welcome. > With my "product manager for Growth" hat on... Like Kaldari said we can't give people who aren't logged in Echo notifications at the moment. The only alternative is to post to the IP talk page. This would require us to basically build a user account, i.e. a bot, in to Thanks to deliver a Talk page message for the IP. That's probably not going to happen, to be honest, and there isn't the manpower behind Echo right now to design/build proper anonymous notifications. If you're gung-ho about this idea I think Nemo is right, just use the Talk page. :) My instinct here is to try and use this as an experimental tool for showing IPs the advantages of logging in. That is, show them an "unclaimed" account with thank you or other notification, then prompt them to sign up after they read it. This would give us temporary anonymous notifications and also show people what they would get for taking a moment to sign up. This kind of technique is extremely powerful for demonstrating the value in registering for a site, and you can similar examples in many other places, such as Twitter's "log in and tweet" flow that happens if you use one of their share buttons on a news article etc. If you look at our draft (emphasis on the draft) documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition you will see us mentioning ideas like the "proto-account" that Tim brought up as well. (Just to poke at the technical issue Marc brought up... is there any reason we wouldn't use Redis for this? It seems well suited to storing high volumes of data we would intend to be temporary.) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
