Submissions/Measuring user value

This is a rejected submission for Wikimania 2012.

Submission no.

25

Measuring user value

Type of submission: presentation

Author of the submission: Feen (Edilson F.º)

E-mail address: feenfenix@gmail.com

Username: Feen

Country of origin: Brazil

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)

Personal homepage or blog: http://opiniao.incandescencia.org

Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal): Currently we use user edits as a measure of progress and participation and automatically understand that this is meaningful to the community. We let this guide when users can vote, be tutors or be sysops. Is it really meaningful to simply edit? The process of clicking "edit" and "save page" is an extremly simple way to get "a point" and often users will, compeled by leaderboards, userboxes and the general culture of edit counts value, reduce the steps between the two actions as much as possible.

Track: WikiCulture and Community

Length of presentation/talk (if other then 25 minutes, specify how long): 30 Minutes

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?: I will attend Wikimania anyways if I am able to get the scholarship

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NaBUru38 15:46, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Steven (WMF) (talk)
Maryana (WMF) (talk) 23:45, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
In Ukrainian Wikipedia I run few user rankings which are based on amount of text added by users. Probably we could exchange some ideas. --Amakuha (talk) 05:17, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Solstag (talk) 07:06, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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