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Openness vs. Earning Rights
WikiHow:
- Everyone can edit (fully open)
- Patrol/Add Images needs registering (still open)
- Become an Article Booster needs passing a Test
- Admins (delte/block) through election
- boosting is a status to be earned (an achievement to be "unlocked")
- patrolling marks something as "patrolled" (some kind of approving)
- it's about earning trust to gain access to more powerful tools
- Administrators drop out after being elected, because the fully "leveled-up"
- voting is problematic, because its a vote on character, but people can't "know" everyone (new admins are elected by existing admins)
- 92 existing admins, probably about 20 active ones
- "We should rename Admin to Janitor" - Eric Moeller on Wikipedia Admins
- Becoming an Admin is a "Social Trophy"
- Existing Admins voting for new Admins could create a closed circle
- Not enough incentives (like barnstars) makes the Adminship an incentive
- stackexchange is a good example
- ThumbsUp for single edits
- How to acknowledge good writers?
- Backup encourages (reverted, rereverted by someone else)
- Dunbar's Law (Monkeysphere) - you can't know everyone -> need for hierarchies/titles
- reward systems can be gamed
- assigning trophies is hard when quality is involved