On 2016-01-23 5:51 AM, Lodewijk wrote:

Anyway, I really appreciate the initiative, but there are some conceptual hurdles to overcome.

Indeed there are, and that is why I said that it's very hard to do right (and, IMO, doing it wrong is worse than not doing it at all).

I do think it's worth discussing however - I see advantages beyond simple community building too.  Highlighting exemplary contributions (however we end up defining that) is, I believe, inspiring (and may well give some of our most dedicated contributors some well-deserved recognition too).  I don't expect many people will contribute with the award as an objective[1], but that doesn't reduce the value of them.

Perhaps we should set out a place on-wiki to hash out whether the concept has value and - if so - how it could work out?

-- Marc

[1] Then again, the Commons POTY arguably gets us some of our most valuable images and there is no question that there are photographers and illustrators that contribute /because/ of it.

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