[WikiEN-l] Re: Adminship as a reward
Timwi
timwi at gmx.net
Wed Jun 23 01:13:07 UTC 2004
hcheney wrote:
> I propose that the community start issuing awards of
> merit to users that will be voted upon by the
> community over a period of a week. Some of the ideas I
> kicked around were...
>
> the <i>Wikipedia Peace Prize</i> - for users who have
> worked to resolve conflict in the community.
>
> the <i>Gutenberg Award</i> - for users that have
> extensively improved the main-namespace content of
> Wikipedia
The idea is quite nice and innovative, but I really don't think it'll
work, for several reasons:
(1) The reasons Rick already mentioned.
(2) WikiMoney didn't work either.
(3) People will start doing certain things (e.g. make loads of trivial
edits to the article namespace) *just* to get (one of) these awards,
and then genuinely think they are entitled to (one of) these awards.
(4) Community recognition works best when it is not measurable. I can
say with certainty that Anthere is more popular on Wikipedia than a
vandal, but I can't rank her with other people. If she were awarded
a "Wikipedia peace prize" and, say, Angela wasn't, then this would
create an artificial (and deceptive) ranking between them.
Timwi
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