Oups, sorry 2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>
> 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. > There are more than one way to contribute to OSM: it is therefore very difficult to gauge what the criterias for an award would be. Do we want to also give awards to people contributing based on the number of line of code? I think that as soon as we are starting to introduce some kind of metrics, we will have people trying to skew the results in order to get the biggest number of awards. Most of us don't do this to be recognized. We have the satisfaction of seeing the map done. I think that for OSM rewards like having a map of an area is greater than some kind of ranks. Plus as Martin said, I kind of dislike hierarchy. There is already an implicit hierarchy I don't think we need to add an extra layer of this. Also, you have to take into consideration that as we reach completeness, those awards will become more and more difficult to achieve especially for the occasional contributor that is just mapping his area. Emilie Laffray
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