Board Thread:The Gatehouse/@comment-24185151-20140128114656

Thank you all for your patience during the discussion of how we were going to award our wiki scribes.

After much brainstorming, the admins (and a few wiki contributors that joined the discussion) have come up with three alternatives on how we will be awarding contributor levels in future.

1. The old badge system + Justification Contributors will apply for their level in a single forum thread instead of posting to admin Message Walls

The application will consist of the number of badge points they've accumulated, the level they are applying for and the reasons why they believe they have earned this level. These reasons can be backed up with supportive evidence such as links to their pages.

The admins will then award contributor levels based on these applications. If the application is unsuccessful, the admins will direct the contributor on what they can improve to achieve that desired level.

2. Trello Projects Much like the current HabitRPG trello projects, the wiki can have it's own board with projects such as "newbie pages", "spell-check" or "layout alignment edits".

Each project has a pool of points that it is worth and the wiki members can assign themselves to the project. Once the project is completed, the team members on that project will receive a proportion of that point pool based on the percentage of their contribution towards that project.

3. Old badge system + justification for points, guided by trello projects This option allows the contribution levels are awarded based on the badge and justification system. However in this option, the trello projects don't earn the wiki contributors points, but instead is used as a guide to direct the wiki to better improvement.

It provides the flexibility of having a set goal as well as allowing the more casual wiki editors to make minor adjustments at the same time and still earn points.

 