On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 11:08 PM David Abián davidabian@wikimedia.es wrote:
Hi folks,
It's fantastic to see that we have such interesting tools to contribute to Wikidata like Magnus' games.
With Wikidata Game and The Distributed Game as a base, I think we could go further and get a tool that serve, not only as a game, but as a real competition. In particular, with the following additions and a few suggestions, I believe we could celebrate great /in situ/ Wikidata competitions over the world:
- A chronometer with a start and a scheduled end while contributions are
registered for the contest.
- Some quorum (e.g., three) so that edits in the contest are only
applied to Wikidata if that quorum of people agrees on an answer.
- A scoring system that only provide points (or much more points) to
those who get a quorum. This avoids people answering randomly while they destroy Wikidata and earn more and more points.
- A way to show the same questions to the quorum number of participants
during the competition.
- A real-time ranking in the competition scope.
- A way to manage the list of participants and to register an
administrator, or multiple ones, for every contest.
Would this be a good idea? Would anyone like to develop some of these features?
Please be aware that a large amount of gamification systems actually hurt the community they are trying to build. They (usually) only work in the short-term and make the situation worse in the longer-term. The way the current Wikidata Game is doing it is very good. Here are some articles to read up on this topic: * https://www.feverbee.com/participation-for-intrinsic-reasons/ * https://www.feverbee.com/blunt-instruments/ * https://www.feverbee.com/reputationsystems/ * https://www.feverbee.com/bigparticipationimpact/ * https://www.feverbee.com/dont-use-recognition-shortcuts/ * https://www.feverbee.com/superfans/
I can recommend the blog above for all kinds of interesting research-backed information around communities.
Cheers Lydia