Wow, these are great links, Lydia, thanks. I, for one, would warmly welcome more well-designed games, especially in the distributed game framework that Magnus has built. Not so much for the playfulness, but because it’s such an easy way to do many useful edits without needing deep concentration, and because I find it really interesting to see all the kind of content that we cover (the games allow me to get out of the ‘filter bubble’ in which I usually edit, which is the field of the visual arts).
Game-like tools that I would like to see, would include - a sourcing game to add reference URLs from RKDartists to statements related to artists (birth dates, death dates, places of birth and death, professions) - a nice and pleasant interface that allows me to state what is depicted in an artwork - a better game to add Thesaurus of Geograpic Names IDs to geographic entities. The TGN is now in the distributed and ‘normal’ Mix’n’Match version but is hard to match in these. It really needs a good interface with a large map for ‘our’ items next to the more detailed geographical info contained in the TGN (tree view; is it a city/river/mountain…) A competition element, on the other hand, would really put me off. I don’t care at all, I’m not in it for that and it would chase me away very quickly. Sandra > On 07 Feb 2016, at 10:00, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 11:08 PM David Abián <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi folks, > > It's fantastic to see that we have such interesting tools to contribute > to Wikidata like Magnus' games. > > With Wikidata Game and The Distributed Game as a base, I think we could > go further and get a tool that serve, not only as a game, but as a real > competition. In particular, with the following additions and a few > suggestions, I believe we could celebrate great /in situ/ Wikidata > competitions over the world: > > * A chronometer with a start and a scheduled end while contributions are > registered for the contest. > * Some quorum (e.g., three) so that edits in the contest are only > applied to Wikidata if that quorum of people agrees on an answer. > * A scoring system that only provide points (or much more points) to > those who get a quorum. This avoids people answering randomly while they > destroy Wikidata and earn more and more points. > * A way to show the same questions to the quorum number of participants > during the competition. > * A real-time ranking in the competition scope. > * A way to manage the list of participants and to register an > administrator, or multiple ones, for every contest. > > Would this be a good idea? Would anyone like to develop some of these > features? > > > Please be aware that a large amount of gamification systems actually hurt the > community they are trying to build. They (usually) only work in the > short-term and make the situation worse in the longer-term. The way the > current Wikidata Game is doing it is very good. > Here are some articles to read up on this topic: > * https://www.feverbee.com/participation-for-intrinsic-reasons/ > <https://www.feverbee.com/participation-for-intrinsic-reasons/> > * https://www.feverbee.com/blunt-instruments/ > <https://www.feverbee.com/blunt-instruments/> > * https://www.feverbee.com/reputationsystems/ > <https://www.feverbee.com/reputationsystems/> > * https://www.feverbee.com/bigparticipationimpact/ > <https://www.feverbee.com/bigparticipationimpact/> > * https://www.feverbee.com/dont-use-recognition-shortcuts/ > <https://www.feverbee.com/dont-use-recognition-shortcuts/> > * https://www.feverbee.com/superfans/ <https://www.feverbee.com/superfans/> > > I can recommend the blog above for all kinds of interesting research-backed > information around communities. > > Cheers > Lydia > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > <http://about.me/lydia.pintscher> > Product Manager for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de/> > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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