I’m wondering if we can address the problem with the same framework as for having better list of concrete projects? Let’s say, we have a list of articles suggested for contribution, like this one, but maybe with some additional info on prioritization. A person picks the article the same way as a project and mark it somehow as “Taken” and then “Done”. So we can trace their contribution based on this selection process and assign status points correspondingly. So, essentially, “Writing article” is just a possible type of a project, and the rest workflows are the same. Which suggests that we need to think more about project-based contribution. Perhaps it worth referencing Effective Thesis here as a similar initiative.
And having something slack for wikipedia contributors doesn’t seem like a problem at all.
Alternative approach could be adopting MediaWiki and integrating it with existing user rating system. I don’t know how backend for EA Forum is organized, but something like OpenID could be a relatively painless solution.
I’m wondering if we can address the problem with the same framework as for having better list of concrete projects? Let’s say, we have a list of articles suggested for contribution, like this one, but maybe with some additional info on prioritization. A person picks the article the same way as a project and mark it somehow as “Taken” and then “Done”. So we can trace their contribution based on this selection process and assign status points correspondingly. So, essentially, “Writing article” is just a possible type of a project, and the rest workflows are the same. Which suggests that we need to think more about project-based contribution. Perhaps it worth referencing Effective Thesis here as a similar initiative.
And having something slack for wikipedia contributors doesn’t seem like a problem at all.
Alternative approach could be adopting MediaWiki and integrating it with existing user rating system. I don’t know how backend for EA Forum is organized, but something like OpenID could be a relatively painless solution.