That really depends on how you define 'gamification'. To me, the
gamification is not the leaderboards, but exactly the elements you
mention - the splitting of the whole into simple microtasks plus
giving out those microtasks to users for a large part at random. In
fact, I usually play the 'distributed' version of the wikidata game,
and as far as I know there is no scoring or leaderboard there at all,
but I would still say the whole is gamified.
Andre Engels
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Mark J. Nelson <mjn(a)anadrome.org> wrote:
Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> writes:
*Gamified interfaces for microcontributions à la
Wikidata game*.
(per GerardM) there's absolutely no doubt this model is effective at
creating a large volume of high-quality edits, and value to the project and
communities.
I agree on these interfaces, but at least in my use of them, and that of
the other people I know who use them, the 'gamification' part is a red
herring and not why we use them: the important part is the interface and
its functionality. The confusing point/leaderboard system (which I never
check) isn't really a draw, but the tools are actually useful to do
things that are tedious otherwise, and at least somewhat enjoyable to
use. It's useful that it tries to find e.g. new articles that might
match an existing Wikidata topic but are unlinked, and presents
side-by-side information that helps quickly eliminate some false
positives, with a fast interface where you just press '1', '2', or
'3'
on the keyboard to move on.
So a different way of looking at this category is: interfaces to make
microcontributions non-tedious, and easy to curate in a
"dashboard-style" way. Those interfaces might or might not have some
gamification layer too, but I don't think that's the important part.
Best,
Mark
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