As a pie-in-the-sky idea for encouraging such crowd sourcing in a fun
way, I could imagine it being turned into a game, with achievements for
meeting various milestones...
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You've updated 2 dog foulings - just one more and you'll win a...
*** DOUBLE-WHAMMY-DOG-POO-JACKPOT-BONUS!!! ***
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(with an appropriate icon, of course ;-)
Various awards by categories, awards for covering many geographic areas,
meta awards given out for achieving sets of other awards (eg at least
one in every category...)
Actually, I'd probably turn it into a general service, usable and
extendible by any civic-hacking project that would benefit from it - I
could imagine a bunch of mySociety and like-minded sites using it - eg
TWFY video tagging, scenic-or-not style crowdsourcing, leaflet scanning
for straightchoice, contact-detail gathering for yournextmp, etc etc etc...
Just make it really easy for other sites to define their awards and
scoring, and leave all the league tables and achievement browsing
interface to the central site. So any time you need to crank out a quick
crowd sourcing site, you've already got a lot of the reward/incentive
system in place...
I'd look at the Xbox online achievement system (which I've not used) and
steal ideas from it mercilessly.
Ben.
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