User stories:

As an organizer, I want the participants in my event to receive "thanks" when they make good faith contributions, so that they can feel recognized for their work and more motivated to continue editing.

As an event participant, I want to be recognized for my work by other participants and/or the organizers.

As an event participant and/or organizer, I want easy ways to thank and recognize the work of other participants as part of my event experience, so that I contribute both through editing and through human connection.

Acceptance Criteria:

• Explore design concepts for the following:
  • What is the user experience for editors to thank each other in the scope of an event?
  • What is the user experience for editors to perhaps offer wikilove to other editors who participated in an event?
  • If we have both thanks and wikilove, do we have a more general icon to show love/recognition that could show the pathways (thanks, wikilove)? How do people understand the difference?
• Consider some of the following questions:
  • What is the most inviting and motivating approach to encourage event participants to recognize each other?
  • How can we encourage people to recognize good work -- and not just edit? How can we encourage more of a culture/expectation that goals of the event are not just to make edits but also to recognize each other (without it being a formal goal)?
    • For example, do we nudge people to thank someone after making an edit? Do we nudge people to thank someone who is a newcomer? Do we nudge people to recognize someone after they have received a thanks?
• Look into who has done research around thanks (maybe in design research?) in the past to see what learnings we can draw from