Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
I read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Post-edit_feedback recently and discovered that initially there have been plans to show ‘Thank you for your edit’ in post-edit confirmation (or it was even shown during some A/B test?). I thought that it would be cool to bring it back, but as an easter egg instead of something that gets shown every time, since you wouldn’t want the interface to say ‘thanks’ every time you do something. I know Echo sends notifications on 1, 10, 100, 1000 and so on edit, but they become rarer and rarer for editors, whereas this feature could be something that gets shown once in a while more frequently.
Legoktm mentioned on Discord that people weren’t thrilled about the interface saying ‘thank you’ to vandals. To avoid this becoming a problem, maybe something like this can be implemented:
- The easter egg could be shown only to registered users (mw.config.get( 'wgUserName' ) !== null).
- The easter egg has a 1% (or less if needed?) chance of getting shown to people.
- It can only be shown after someone already made an edit and was shown a regular post-edit confirmation, if that is simple enough to track.
Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):
This doesn’t have much ‘use case’, but is more of a nice message that should only be noticeable by some during their regular nightly editing binge (we’ve all been there).