User:OrenBochman/Social Wiki

Good heavens! Mardonius, what kind of men are these against whom you have brought us to fight? Men who do not compete for possessions, but for honour

Based on input from wikimania there is some interest in making the media wiki software more social. The actual goal is to make the software more inducive to friendly interaction.

Test First
Any changes should be A/B tested on a wiki to measure it's utility. Different types and amounts of Kudows would be awarded per activity. The stories below represent use cases. The implimenation would probabliy be rule based so that the community can optimise the the kudos governence system to thier changing needs.

Kudos Governence System
Kudos means Praise; Accolades.

Kudos - a visible measure of merit.
 * these would be visible on thier user pages via a UI gadget.

Newbie

 * New user would get a (say 100) newbie kudos for thier regitration or first edit. As they perform different activities their kudos will newbie kudos points would be transformed to editing kudos.
 * Newbie kudos are special since they will should give them protection against harasment by existing user.
 * Their edits would be protected from deletion for a month (i.e. require two sets of eyes to undo)

Editors
An editor who has created high quality pages will gain editing kudos (based on length, references and notability) if he has interacted with others editors they will each gain some merit. This should be done using something like wikitrust to calculate the amount so people can't cheat too easily. Once a user gains a certain amount they will gain privilages and responsibilites responsibilities.
 * they can place an item on the community agenda.

Troll
An editor who has taken part in an antisocial activity sucha as a revert war, defaced some pages, has deleted another users edits or scared away a new editor will be deemed to have damaged the communeties shared knowlege. Their kudos would be reset and they get a kudos penalty which thet will have to wikr off to regain thier privalage. The idea is to create acountability and to place the offender on more equal footing with new comers.

Patroller

 * A par

Mentor
An wikipedian who joins a mentoring program will be eligible for social kudos. These are special. They help to work off offences. They

Long Term
I see little point in gaining millions of actionable kudos. Therefore as soon as the number of kudos accumulate above a certain limit the user will get laural leaf in an apropriate color (equivilent to the color in their gadget). The next leaf will require alittle more kudos to aquire. Eventual the user will have gained a Kotinos or a proverbial poets crown. I would suggest that the future officer of the local chapters and of the foundations will have to present many wearthed crown along with thier c.v.