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The reluctant crowdsourcer: a decade of Wikipedia
February 11, 2011… ways of attracting a diverse crowd: using social networks, gamification, simple APIs, and solid reward structures. If Wikipedians looked down from their ivory tower, they might just learn something from the current generation of crowd-led projects.
In the meantime, if any women reading this blog are experts on obscure Mozart music (though I’m guessing that Venn diagram has a pretty narrow overlap), I suggest they get over to Wikipedia and help make the web a better place.
Teaching kids to win
October 7, 2010… game design. When teaching his students difficult concepts, he uses the terminology, structure and reward systems of the World of Warcraft MMOG to motivate and grade them. The results include increased class participation and motivation.
It’s easy to dismiss this approach as only working because the students – wannabe game designers – are likely to be highly familiar with the quest-based teaching plan. Replicate it in a class full of Darrens and the results probably wouldn’t be as …
Mo money, mo problems?
September 20, 2010… didn’t work out quite as expected. It was found that participants who were promised financial reward if they completed the task faster than average took longer to come up with the correct solution. Adding a financial incentive actually made them perform worse.
This result has been replicated in many studies since. The common thread that runs through the findings is that using financial incentives to motivate may increase quantity, but not quality.
All tasks, great and small
Even …
Winner takes it all?
August 17, 2010… might argue that rational contributors factor in their chances of success as well as the possible reward when they make their decision to participate).
The idea that such communities lead to exploitation gathers weight when one considers that minors are prevalent amongst the contributors. Although 99designs is actively trying to stop people under 18 from accessing the community, their efforts are easily circumvented over the internet.
To this criticism one user replied “No one is …
Flattery will get you everywhere
May 14, 2010 Share
The Swedes are interesting people, known for their tasty meatballs and thinking outside the box, even when thinking inside it . Just as they revolutionized furniture, tennis and ski-jumping , with The Pirate Bay (TPB) they changed our perception of copyright infringement forever.
Right to copy?
Before a few geeks in Stockholm brought us TPB, there were …
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