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:
- Click the “Chide” button on any edit in page history:
- Click the “Chide” button to confirm:
- Observe that the user has been chided:
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.
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!