[maemo-community] Sprint task: Refine the karma system

[From: Randall Arnold]

> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Uwe Kaminski" <jukey at ju-key.de>
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community at maemo.org>
> Subject: Re: Sprint task: Refine the karma system
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:13:38 +0100
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Valerio Valerio schrieb:
> > I agree that wiki contributions should receive more karma, also to
> > encourage people that post tutorials at TMO to wikify them(TMO
> > tutorials get lost over time), but wiki edits are very easy to
> > abuse, and some people do a lot of small edits just because they
> > like to write articles that way.
> >
> > Does anyone have suggestion to improve wiki karma ?
>
> if not too hard to implement, it would be nice to get at the most one
> "Point" per article a day. This would help at least to solve the
> step-by-step creating problem.
>
> In the long run it would be very helpful to mark articles as "well
> made" and to give the editors (hard to decide who is an editor) of
> this articles some extra karma. The decision which articles are well
> made could be done in the same way as planet maemo or maemo.org/news:
> Thumbs up or down /what also could bring some karma to these voters).
>
> All in all it seems to be no easy how to handle wiki edits but I
> think it it very important to do this because in my opinion the wiki
> should be a knowledge base with the highest quality within the maemo
> community.
>
> Ciao Uwe
> << smime.p7s >>
> << 2.dat >>
>

A big +1

Uwe's suggestion to make the karma timebound is very sensible.  That way
we can boost the karma value per transaction without worrying about the
"spam" of iterative edits over a short span of time (something I am
guilty of, just the way I work).

I also agree with the remainder of his points.

Randall (Randy) Arnold
maemo.org community council
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