Barnstars are the main type of award. They are a way for one editor to give recognition to another editor for good work or a good deed.
There are different types of barnstars, such as for photograph contributions, "tireless contributor", "defender of the wiki", etc. Though the number of types has gotten a little out of hand :) These don't normally get awarded for quantitative things like edit counts, though a user gave me one on Wikipedia for having x number of "good articles". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars Barnstars get delivered to your wiki user talk page. They can be displayed on your wikipedia user page or on a subpage. Though, there is a messaging feature on the main OSM site, there really isn't a place for people to display their "awards". Though, they could go on the OSM wiki, where people have user pages and talk pages. -Kate On 8/21/09, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > 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. > > Bye > Frederik > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
