Suggestion: Some way of displaying quantitative info about how much someone has contributed to this EA wiki
Off the top of my head, I see roughly two options for what info to display, and roughly three options for where to display this.
Options for what info to display:
Just the total number of pages the user has created, edits they’ve made to pages, and comments they’ve made on the discussion/talk pages associated with wiki pages
The user’s “wiki karma”; a parallel system similar to the current Forum karma system but separate from that. People could upvote or downvote page additions, page edits, and comments on discussion/talk pages, and the info from that is aggregated as a wiki karma score.
I’m not sure if this should work exactly like a parallel version of the Forum karma system or be somewhat different (e.g., no distinction between strong and weak votes)
I’m not necessarily saying this should literally be called “wiki karma”; that’s just what I’m calling it for now
Options for where to display this info:
On each user’s regular Forum profile
On some dropdown or link that is accessible from each user’s regular Forum profile, but not just immediately visible there
E.g., each person’s profile could have a link to their “wiki profile”
Or maybe this dropdown or link would only appear for users who have made at least 1 wiki contribution
On user profiles that are associated just with the EA wiki
For each of those options, one could also consider whether this should just be visible by default, visible by default but with the ability to opt-out from the user settings menu, or not visible by default but with the ability to opt in.
My key rationale for this suggestion is that I think a lot of EAs like feeling that their contributions are seen and appreciated, like increasing basically any quantitative target you give them, and/or like gaining status in the EA community. (I know I like these things myself.) These suggestions could help this EA wiki harness those drives in a productive way, just as I imagine the current karma system does for Forum contributions.
But the same suggestion might also be worth doing for the separate reason that it helps people decide what pages to bother reading, what edits to keep, etc., just as the current karma system helps people decide what posts and comments to read. See also a suggestion by Nathan Young.
Suggestion: Some way of displaying quantitative info about how much someone has contributed to this EA wiki
Off the top of my head, I see roughly two options for what info to display, and roughly three options for where to display this.
Options for what info to display:
Just the total number of pages the user has created, edits they’ve made to pages, and comments they’ve made on the discussion/talk pages associated with wiki pages
The user’s “wiki karma”; a parallel system similar to the current Forum karma system but separate from that. People could upvote or downvote page additions, page edits, and comments on discussion/talk pages, and the info from that is aggregated as a wiki karma score.
I’m not sure if this should work exactly like a parallel version of the Forum karma system or be somewhat different (e.g., no distinction between strong and weak votes)
I’m not necessarily saying this should literally be called “wiki karma”; that’s just what I’m calling it for now
Options for where to display this info:
On each user’s regular Forum profile
On some dropdown or link that is accessible from each user’s regular Forum profile, but not just immediately visible there
E.g., each person’s profile could have a link to their “wiki profile”
Or maybe this dropdown or link would only appear for users who have made at least 1 wiki contribution
On user profiles that are associated just with the EA wiki
For each of those options, one could also consider whether this should just be visible by default, visible by default but with the ability to opt-out from the user settings menu, or not visible by default but with the ability to opt in.
My key rationale for this suggestion is that I think a lot of EAs like feeling that their contributions are seen and appreciated, like increasing basically any quantitative target you give them, and/or like gaining status in the EA community. (I know I like these things myself.) These suggestions could help this EA wiki harness those drives in a productive way, just as I imagine the current karma system does for Forum contributions.
But the same suggestion might also be worth doing for the separate reason that it helps people decide what pages to bother reading, what edits to keep, etc., just as the current karma system helps people decide what posts and comments to read. See also a suggestion by Nathan Young.