You mean a mechanism much like trust points, but instead of aggregating all activitiy in a single number giving people various colorful awards in different areas for recognizing their work and some motivation? One of the awards being OSMF membership (or a significant discount on membership fee)? Sounds nice!
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Stefanb/TrustPoints (we can call it karma, georank, osm longitude ... :) Stefan On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Frederik Ramm<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to > have for their contributors: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards > > One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come > from some sort of role playing game. Another part of me abhors the > implicit hierarchy conferred by such awards, it is almost like service > ranks in the military. > > But whatever one thinks of them, they surely are fun for a lot of > people, and give them a sense of achievement. > > In light of the recent discussions (mostly on osmf-talk) about how we > might find a way to automatically let people who have a certain number > of edits or some other small contribution threshold become members of > OSMF (or at least confer some voting rights to them), we could maybe > think about how one would algorithmically "value" contributions to OSM, > yielding not only a set of funny awards we can give to people, but > perhaps also a definition of who is an "established contributor". > > Bear in mind that contributions to OSM are not only edits, but also > tracks uploaded, Wiki pages edited, code commited to SVN, or tiles > rendered for ti...@home... and that some edits may require lots of work > while others can be done almost automatically. > > I'm interested to hear everybody's thoughts on the matter. > > Bye > Frederik > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
