In Wikidata there is an open bug to implement badges (see email below by Lydia), with the open question if this should be handled by the Mediawiki software itself or in some other way. "Template: Link FA" and "Template:Link GA" is the system currently used in all Wikipedias [1] In addition to this, during the Wikimania Open Access project panel [2][3] there were some suggestions about how to engage the scientific community to contribute more content to Wikipedia. Apparently one major blocker is the lack of credit attribution in collaborative environments. By being able to attribute credit to major contributors of featured/good articles, scientists could (voluntarily) link their Wikipedia profile to an external authoring organization who would aggregate these contributions to their standard journal-based ones. According to Denny, once SUL is in place, it should be possible to link Wikidata items representing authors both to their wikimedia profile and to any external authoring organization representing their identity. However, the information that this would provide would be of little use unless the api could provide a list of "featured contributions". Any thoughts or ideas about these issues? Cheers, Micru [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16467 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5462767 [2] https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_Access_%26_Wikipe… [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:58 AM Subject: [Wikidata-tech] badges support - decision needed? To: Wikidata technical discussion <wikidata-tech(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey :) It seems that badges support is stalled on a decision about how exactly to define the set of available badges if I read https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40810 correctly. Can we make a decision and move forward? It's the most voted on bug we have. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote: I think Lydia was referring to the votes on the bugzilla bug page, 14 votes so far :) I thought Wikitrust [1] and others [2] had already addressed this issues? In any case there is no need for an "exact" attribution, an approximate percentage score would be a good enough solution for practical purposes. [1] http://www.wikitrust.net/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mshavlovsky/Authorship_Tracking _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

A manual system where a group of reviewers assign badges to major contributors of good/featured articles could be an option, since there are not that many and usually for human reviewers it is quite clear which users that have contributed the most to an article.

On 08/21/2013 08:35 AM, Mark wrote: See also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**OpenBadges<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki… a stub, don't get excited yet). -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/… ______________________________**_________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.…