[OSM-talk] Wiki contributions (was: new logo)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Kai Krueger wrote:
> There, we really could use some great designers, marketing and PR folk,
> journalists or who ever else feels up to the task of presenting OSM to the
> newbie in an appealing and accurate way to make sure they understand how the
> project works and how they can contribute. 
> 
> And the best thing is, it is a wiki! So you don't need to be friends with
> TomH to get it deployed, or argue with Matt about the logo, or RichardF
> about what the best language is to write Potlatch in or... You can just do
> it and you are much more likely to get the gratitude of all if you do.

I think there's a problem - the gratitude. I think that people, at least 
if they have a reasonably sized ego, are more likely to embark on 
something like "complete front page re-design" (let's make it a project, 
let's have a project manager, let's do it big, let's give it a name, and 
later everone says that YOU were the visionary who pulled it off) than a 
meagre editing of Wiki pages.

Not only are you not placed on a pedestal when you do lots of work on 
the Wiki; there may even be others who ruin all your good work by adding 
their own ;-)

Maybe we could find a way to make contributing to the Wiki a bit more 
interesting to people with ego. Have lists of top contributors (perhaps 
per language) and number of edits in a given timeframe, just as we have 
for API changes. Give them stars and badges and stuff. I'm sure 
Wikipedia has something we can learn from in this respect?

Bye
Frederik

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