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How to chide users for their wiki edits

Posted by Minh Nguyen on 1 April 2022 in English. Last updated on 3 April 2022.

Recently there have been well-reasoned calls to give users blunt feedback when they have strayed. It came to my attention that the wiki has no built-in feature for this social interaction, only the reverse. I have implemented a user script that allows you to chide another user for an edit. For example, I stridently disapprove of this edit from a year ago:

  1. Click the “Chide” button on any edit in page history:
    Screenshot-2022-4-1 Revision history of  Proposed Features Human  - OpenStreetMap Wiki
  2. Click the “Chide” button to confirm:
    Screenshot-2022-4-1 Revision history of  Proposed Features Human  - OpenStreetMap Wiki(1)
  3. Observe that the user has been chided:
    Screenshot-2022-4-1 Revision history of  Proposed Features Human  - OpenStreetMap Wiki(2)

To install this feature, add the following code to your user script page:

// [[User:Minh Nguyen/chide.js]]
mw.loader.load("/w/index.php?title=User:Minh_Nguyen/chide.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript");

I hope this enhancement improves the productivity and rectitude of our wiki documentation efforts.

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Discussion

Comment from Mateusz Konieczny on 2 April 2022 at 00:30

Yay, long standing problem of too much positivity on OSM Wiki will be finally solved!

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