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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
  • trophy system
  • 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
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