This idea of a generic crowdsourcing platform is related to one thing I
think definitely could be taken forward from the election experience
with YNMP. The format of having a form with details to fill in and a
google search (or other) page in a frame at the bottom could be turned
into a generic service where you dump in a google spreadsheet and a
starting url, and it asks visitors to fill in the blanks in a random
line in the spreadsheet. Maybe it could even be entirely client-side, I
don't know much about a google docs API.
For rewards itself, we did use a badge system and points API for
federated Democracy Club tasks, and the DC platform is essentially a
tasks-based crowdsourcing platform (scanning in leaflets, ynmp contact
details), so with a bit of UX improvement (better signup process? mobile
site?) it could be an appropriate base.
-t
On 10/08/10 08:28, Ben Campbell wrote:
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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