Hi Maurizio,
On 07.09.2011 14:24, Maurizio Napolitano wrote:
maybe what I presented at State of the Map Europe in Vienna can be useful.
http://www.slideshare.net/napo/mvp-osm
it sounds quite interesting. Unfortunately I was attending a parallel track.
I thought about "user rankings" some time ago as well. I have mixed
feelings.
On the one hand it might be a way to motivate users to contribute more
and to reward users having contributed "more useful" things than others.
On the other hand I fear it can easily drift into something worse.
People editing specific for the ranking.
Have you heard of the "cobra effect"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
It could actually create worse data when people try to improve their
ranking by "cheating" the statistics.
Stephan
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