How fun with this adventure! I tried taking it but got stuck when I was asked to write on my userpage which I did but the next step didn't come until I changed it in the URL to the next number. Perhaps this was just something that happened to me but more than that, what a lovely adventure!
*Be Bold! Sophie Österberg 0733-832670 sophie.osterb...@wikimedia.se* *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a gift of free knowledge to humanity. * 2013/7/6 Lane Rasberry <l...@bluerasberry.com> > Hello, > > There is an effort at gamification of learning Wikipedia being created at > The Wikipedia Adventure. > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure> > If this module works for guiding people through the introduction to > Wikipedia then it could be further adapted in all kinds of ways. > User:Ocaasi is managing the content development of this, including > community feedback. > > yours, > > > > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Joe Corneli <holtzerman...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I think there's a gap between the OP's question about "recruiting gamers" >> ("including console, LAN, FPS, MMORPG, and mobile gamers") and the range of >> ideas offered about ["]gamification["] of WP editing. >> >> But I think it could be useful to return to the initial question, and >> think more about what the experience of "gamers" is like, and what this >> does or doesn't have to do with Wiki{p,m}edia. >> >> James Gee: "People are quite poor at understanding and remembering >> information they have received out of context or too long before they can >> make use of it. Good games never do this to players, but find ways to put >> information inside the worlds the players move through, and make clear the >> meaning of such information and how it applies to that world." >> >> To me this suggests further questions: >> >> (1 - about gamers) What causes people to contribute texts in-game or >> para-game? >> (2 - about game designers) What motivates people to *author* "good games" >> in the first place? >> >> (3 - about wiki) Can people author "good games" that take place on >> Wiki{p,m}edia? >> >> I can imagine a site called WikiGame that people can use to create game >> scenarios that take place partly in the real world and partly in >> Wikipedia. This has less to with gamification of Wikipedia editing and >> more to do with creating fun games that involve writing. >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org>wrote: >> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Kerry Raymond >>> <kerry.raym...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Wikicup is highly structured and targeted towards improving quality and >>>> attracts only a small number of participants. It appears to be targeting >>>> existing editors to make better quality contributions. So it’s certainly an >>>> example of gamification, but not one that’s likely to find “mass appeal” or >>>> attract/motivate new editors.**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> I think if we are looking for “mass appeal” then I think we need to >>>> look at “casual gaming” and what makes them tick. Why do people play little >>>> short-play games? What’s the equivalent for Wikipedia? Could we create a >>>> “game” that throws up a random “citation needed” (perhaps in a particular >>>> category) and asks for a URL that supports the claim? The game would have >>>> to have other “players” checking the citation or else people would upload >>>> any old URL. Maybe it could be structured along the lines of Yahoo Answers, >>>> where the “players” get Best Answer statistics and can be on leaderboards >>>> for different categories of content. There’s a nice match here to Wikipedia >>>> since we already have categories.**** >>>> >>>> ** >>>> >>> I think Kerry is on the right track here. WikiCup, the Core Contest etc. >>> are really cool, but they're at the highest end of the quality/difficulty >>> spectrum when it comes to motivating users. >>> >>> A few projects at WMF that have touched on gamification elements: >>> >>> 1. Mobile "microcontributions". This is primarily in the planning >>> stage, but there are variety of small, simple, repeatable things that are >>> potentially easy to do on mobile. This fits with the mindset of mobile >>> gaming, where people intermittently play games to pass the time on >>> transit, >>> waiting in line, etc. More info: >>> >>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering/Strategy/2013-2014_planning#Micro-Contributions >>> 2. Our Getting Started workflow for onboarding new users. Try it: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GettingStarted One of the >>> ideas we'll be testing next is a progress bar, which encourages users to >>> complete learning five edits to learn each task type. Right now, we see >>> editors use the "Try another article" function on the toolbar to skip >>> around and edit multiple articles within a particular workflow, such as >>> copyediting or adding wikilinks. There's very little stopping us from >>> adapting this in to a perpetually available "game" associated with the >>> many >>> todo items in Wikipedia:Backlog, after we've figured out how best to >>> apply >>> to the new editor onboarding experience. >>> 3. The Education Program experimented with leaderboards for >>> students. Example: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Canada_Education_Program/Leaderboard&oldid=487269755Based >>> on feedback from students this was a motivator, but it needs to be >>> tested in a controlled way for regular editors, as we know that student >>> activity and retention follows very different patterns compared to >>> editors >>> not introduced to editing via a classroom assignment. This is one of >>> those >>> things we should test with a degree of caution, as competition is not >>> always friendly and positive. >>> 4. Many people have brought up the idea of hooking up Mozilla's Open >>> Badges architecture to Wikimedia projects. See >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BADGE and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Badges >>> >>> There are probably others I'm forgetting. >>> >>> -- >>> Steven Walling >>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > > -- > Lane Rasberry > 206.801.0814 > l...@bluerasberry.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > --
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