A game built on a travel-photograph-upload loop would be a great way to build our depth of imagery.
cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Toby Negrin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pine -- did you have any specific ideas? I spent some time in the > gaming industry and am familiar with Ingress, the game that Pokeman Go is > based on, as well as the theories behind mechanics/compulsion loops that > mobile games use. > > I'll share one general thought -- the research-edit-publish loop is a > great mechanism -- it's quick and easy and very gratifying, especially > combined with a google search. > > However, we've generally found that the notion that we use gaming > mechanics to encourage people to read or edit wikipedia does not have broad > support in our communities. > > -Toby > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi WMF Mobile and Research, >> >> I'm wondering if we (mostly meaning "you" but perhaps with external >> collaborators) have considered how the Wikipedia mobile apps, Wikipedia >> mobile web, the Wikidata game, and/or the Commons app could borrow some >> design ideas or features from Pokémon Go to make Wikimedia offerings more >> appealing, particularly to younger audiences. This would apply to content >> consumption and contribution, as well as community aspects of Wikimedia >> experiences, particularly on mobile platforms. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Pine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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