That really depends on how you define 'gamification'. To me, the gamification is not the leaderboards, but exactly the elements you mention - the splitting of the whole into simple microtasks plus giving out those microtasks to users for a large part at random. In fact, I usually play the 'distributed' version of the wikidata game, and as far as I know there is no scoring or leaderboard there at all, but I would still say the whole is gamified.
Andre Engels On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Mark J. Nelson <m...@anadrome.org> wrote: > > Dario Taraborelli <dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> writes: > >> *Gamified interfaces for microcontributions à la Wikidata game*. >> (per GerardM) there's absolutely no doubt this model is effective at >> creating a large volume of high-quality edits, and value to the project and >> communities. > > I agree on these interfaces, but at least in my use of them, and that of > the other people I know who use them, the 'gamification' part is a red > herring and not why we use them: the important part is the interface and > its functionality. The confusing point/leaderboard system (which I never > check) isn't really a draw, but the tools are actually useful to do > things that are tedious otherwise, and at least somewhat enjoyable to > use. It's useful that it tries to find e.g. new articles that might > match an existing Wikidata topic but are unlinked, and presents > side-by-side information that helps quickly eliminate some false > positives, with a fast interface where you just press '1', '2', or '3' > on the keyboard to move on. > > So a different way of looking at this category is: interfaces to make > microcontributions non-tedious, and easy to curate in a > "dashboard-style" way. Those interfaces might or might not have some > gamification layer too, but I don't think that's the important part. > > Best, > Mark > > -- > Mark J. Nelson > The MetaMakers Institute > Falmouth University > http://www.kmjn.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
