Hi Bryce and Janko It seems that I have triggered many ideas about Gamification of data capturing in OSM. I have some visions too from the existing Kort Game. But for discussing this, I think, we should fork this thread.
I think such highscores don't belong (yet) to the main website os OSM. So what I still like to find out, is, what triggered the opposition to gamification. I can't find Saman mentioning gamification in his presentation (as other reported here) - or did I miss something? Yours, Stefan 2013/7/29 Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com>: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I think statistics are enough for gamification. You can have lots of >> badges like >> >> "Biggest contributor in Belgium" - most nodes in Belgium >> "Road admiral of Alabama" - most roads in Alabama >> "Power man of Bavaria" - biggest contributor of power tags (power=line, >> power=substation etc.) in Bavaria >> "Forester of Croatia" >> "Ski instructor of Switzerland" >> etc.. >> >> Then if you have a question about tagging a power station in some region, >> you could quickly find "the power man" of the region, and ask them. That way >> the badge comes with some responsibility and influence in decision making. >> The bigger the region, the more responsibility. > > > Games can be... gamed. > As a pipsqeak in the power pole mapping influence peddling ring, I could > zoom to the top with a few evenings of shifting nodes that did not really > need shifting. If the game is important enough to be gamed... it will be > gamed. > > Better to say that my edits are respected. I make an edit and someone else > says 'thanks, that looks great', or maybe 'could we talk about the inclusion > of bird nests on power poles a bit?'. Then you've got a system that has > both games and social features. For those who don't want either there can > be achievement levels: perhaps certain capabilities, like bulk uploads, > could require hitting certain contribution milestones. It works great for > stack exchange and other similar sites. > > -Bryce > > Note: the badge list above shows a gender-specific skew... trying giving the > 'power man' badge to a professional female lawyer. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
