User:Jeblad/social Kanban

It is possible to make a kind of social/cultural crediting for contributions and limiting the report to involvement to a few articles, a category or articles linked to a project. By limiting the reported timeframe the user can get a higher score if he completes the tasks instead of leaving them unfinished. This leads to a form of Kanban system where only focused contributions gets the highest social score.

One approach is to accumulate positive contribution scores within a timeframe for articles an user edits, then calculate a median for the upper fixed number of mostly edited articles. A more focused behavior will get a higher overall score and the user will be ranked higher.

By manipulating the scoring mechanism various facets of social an cultural interactions can be measured and produce feedback. It is for example possible to score according to retention rate for newcomers, were a user gets a score according to his ability to transform newcomers into good contributors. His part in each newcomer could be measured by a coincidence analysis of subject and talk pages.

If a user keeps adding welcome templates without actually helping the newcomers the effort will lead to a pretty low overall score as many newcomers will leave. Those involved in dialogue with newcomers that stays and starts to produce content will rank better.