That's something Hadley is working on building (there's a prototype hidden away). Part of what it's aiming to be is something that does for this, what crowdmap does for ushahdi.
Cheers Sam On 10 Aug 2010, at 13:19, Tim Green wrote: > 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... >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> You've updated 2 dog foulings - just one more and you'll win a... >> >> *** DOUBLE-WHAMMY-DOG-POO-JACKPOT-BONUS!!! *** >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> (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. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
