Cross ref - T205224: Revisit inability to thank bots, T341388: Allow thanking bots on Wikimedia wikis

rOMWC1111732c8e98: InitialiseSettings.php: Allow thanking bots enabled thanking bots for all WMF wikis...

It's a config value in the extension (ThanksSendToBots), and it's default to false. This is easily changed on a wiki, but this really doesn't feel like is a tech-decision-forum thing.

What are you actually requesting here, because "Allow thanking bots in Extension:Thanks" seems to be done?

If I am interrupting it correctly, the request is to set ThanksSendToBots to true by default in the extension itself.

@Frostly If I am correct, would "Default ThanksSendToBots to true" be a better title for this task?

Yes, thank you!

Change 956049 had a related patch set uploaded (by EpicPupper; author: EpicPupper):

[mediawiki/extensions/Thanks@master] Allow thanking bots

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/956049

@Reedy if this task is uncontroversial and does not require the TDF, happy to re-submit the change!

@Frostly, @HouseBlaster's recent config change already allows anyone to thank any bot on any Wikimedia wiki. (See this log action by me thanking your bot on enwiki).

I personally don't see a strong enough argument being made (or a consensus being shown) here for this feature to be enabled on all non-wikimedia wikis as well (which include the non-wikimedia Minecraft Wiki, Miraheze, Fandom, Arch Wiki, some random guy's $1.12/mo private wiki etc). I agree this is a fun feature to have, but I feel having it be off by default is the correct approach, since it can incur some amount of unwanted database usage, which might/might not be acceptable to a wiki operator.

In T354972#9458845, @Soda wrote:

I personally don't see a strong enough argument being made (or a consensus being shown) here for this feature to be enabled on all non-wikimedia wikis as well (which include the non-wikimedia Minecraft Wiki, Miraheze, Fandom, Arch Wiki, some random guy's $1.12/mo private wiki etc). I agree this is a fun feature to have, but I feel having it be off by default is the correct approach, since it can incur some amount of unwanted database usage, which might/might not be acceptable to a wiki operator.

Of course, it's also cheap for them to turn it off. They can even set $wgThanksSendToBots = false; well in advance of them deploying the code that includes it.

If this task was about removing the config flag, I would understand there is more scope/weight to decide if that was desired.

It's not uncommon for extensions to follow whatever Wikimedia wikis are using as their default.

I will note, that I don't really care much either way.

As well, I don’t see this change causing significantly more logs in the database :)

Removing good first task as the patch has been written.