Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign

Welcome to the KINDNESS CAMPAIGN PROJECT PAGE

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to improve the quality of life here at Wikipedia through Kindness and Recognition of Users. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. New participants are welcome; please feel free to join!

Scope and goals
The goal for the Kindness Campaign is to show recognition of people's determination and to give peace and love across all of Wikipedia!

How you can help
Anybody can help by making even the smallest gesture of kindness.
 * 1) Identify any user who has gone unthanked for too long – which are many users – and recognize their efforts.
 * 2) Make an effort to recognize somebody for a history of fine work, or a specific exceptional effort.
 * 3) Sign the rolls of the kindness campaign  below.
 * 4) Add a link to this page on your user page, or the KC user box, and encourage others to join our campaign.
 * 5) Assess your peer KC members and give them an award if suitable. Perhaps many are signing up for the KC because they hope to get an award back as return!

How to give recognition
A common, but not exclusive, way of recognizing somebody is by giving one of the chronically underused barnstars to somebody deserving; a complete list of the most common awards we use can be found at Barnstars. You can also send them Thanks for an edit they made. You can also recognize somebody by posting to the WikiProject:  A nice cup of tea and a sit down. If you have any other ideas for how to recognize somebody, please share it on our Discussion Board!

Ending arguments
The Peace Doves are a peace offering, or truce, that you offer to someone whom you have had an argument with recently. An apology or note equipped with one of the Peace Dove images presented on a user talk page can easily make someone's day, resolve disputes, and quickly dissipate harsh feelings.

Avoiding arguments
Sometimes discussions may escalate and become heated. This template may be used to help calm the contributors, which may lead to more efficient resolution of the issue(s). This template may be used as a talk page header or among other headers and banners at the TOP of the page. It may also be included within a section to bring its message directly to those who are trying to resolve an issue. Add this at or near the TOP of a talk page in the following manner:

Spreading kindness
These other images can also be useful for spreading kindness, recognizing those who do so, and comforting those who need it. You don't need to be told how and when to use them. This is not a bureaucracy.

Sympathy and well wishes




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Discussion and awards

 * Barnstars
 * Other related awards
 * Personal user awards

From the Kindness Campaign's subpages

 * General Discussion
 * Strategy Discussion
 * Why bother?

Templates
Here are a couple of templates that will hopefully make it easier to add barnstars and other images to user's talk pages. You do not have to use them, but they're here if you want them.

The template for this userbox is: user KC


 * If you prefer to Keep It Simple, you can use WP:KIS/WPKindness which displays:

The template for this userbox is:

The template for this userbox is: User was thanked

The template for this userbox is: User has thanked

The Rolls of the Kindness Campaign
To see our full list of participants, please click here. If we were to show them all, the page would be about four times the length!