wiki challenge -- now on the wiki

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:52:19AM +0300, Pierros Papadeas wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Clint Savage <herlo1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Max Spevack wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mostly it's just a question of incentives and making it a fun game for
> >>> people to see who can meet the challenge first.  That's the marketing
> >>> trick here, I suppose.
> >>
> >> "Complete 5 wiki challenges, and get a set of steak knives!"
> >>
> >> "Complete 10 wiki challenges, and we'll make you the lead story on
> >> Fedora Weekly News!"
> >>
> >> "Complete 15 wiki challenges, and get some travel sponsorship to the
> >> next FUDCon in your region!"
> >>
> >> "Complete 50 wiki challenges, and we'll let you name the next release!"
> >>
> >> "Complete 500 wiki challenges, and we'll send you a coupon for 20% off
> >> your carpal-tunnel surgery."
> >>
> >> &c.
> >
> > This reminds me a bit of a social networking game, something like
> > foursquare.  Maybe there's a way that people who commit those wiki
> > edits can get credit in FAS or Fedora Community and earn points toward
> > sponsorship to FUDCon or Fedora SWAG or something.  I think we may
> > have an idea here...
> 
> That's a nice challenge!
> 
> This reminds me, to remind everyone that our wiki genreally needs MORE
> love! Not only cleaning up pages and getting them up to date, but also
> editing with comments (I can not seem to find anyone else but me to
> edit with comments :( ) and also being bold on editing :)
> 
> Max, start counting my wiki challenges, because Fedora 15 is going to
> have my name on it ;)
> 
> Let's make our wiki shine!

Pierros, you're an inspiration!

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