The main question is about what you're trying to accomplish exactly. I
doubt anyone expects Wikipedians to work harder because they could possibly
win an award. Or that they will work harder afterwards. What I would see as
the potential added value of such award, is more something intangible like
I suspect that a program of global recognition of newbies at Wikimania is too
fast and too soon. It is a very big jump from making a few edits on a website
to winning some global award, an award that only new editors qualify for.
We have thousands, possibly tens of thousands of good faith new
On 2016-01-23 5:51 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
Anyway, I really appreciate the initiative, but there are some
conceptual hurdles to overcome.
Indeed there are, and that is why I said that it's very hard to do right
(and, IMO, doing it wrong is worse than not doing it at all).
I do think it's worth
