Investigate awarding Open Badges

[susannasiebert]

@malachig commented on Mon Sep 26 2016

• What activities in CIViC should be rewarded with a badge?
• What should we take into account when determining a user's activity/reputation score?

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@obigriffith commented on Thu Dec 08 2016

Potential badge worthy events:

• 1st, 10th, 100th, 1000th evidence submission
• 1st, 10th, 100th, 1000th comment
• 1st, 10th, 100th, 1000th proposed revision
• 1st, 10th, 100th, 1000th suggested publication
• 1st, 10th, 100th, 1000th moderation (accepted/rejected submission/revision)
• user profile completed (name, username, email, area of expertise, orcid, personal website, biography, at least one social media handle)

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@zlskidmore commented on Thu Dec 08 2016

• 1st, 10th, 100th, 1000th evidence submission (complete)
• 1st, 10th, 100th, 1000th comment (complete)

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@goodb commented on Fri Dec 09 2016

I suggest you work on getting a larger number of badges in place. There is a long way from 10 to 100 and an even longer way from 100 to 1000. One option is to allow users to award other users with badges or "barnstars" as they are called in Wikipedia to reward good contributions. You could integrate the badging with points and progress bars to alleviate those gaps a little bit. Also, how are you planning to implement the badging? Have you considered using [Mozilla Open Badges] (https://openbadges.org) ? We could also set something up that would let you use [Science Game Lab] (https://www.sciencegamelab.org/beta.php) to do this. WikiPathways has now created a sophisticated training program using the SGL badge/quest/point mechanics and infrastructure.

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@obigriffith commented on Fri Dec 09 2016

I agree about too much distance between these marks. One possibility is to allow multiple badges of a single type. For example if there is a silver badge for 10th submission then you get a x2 at 20th and x3 at 30th and so on.

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@goodb commented on Fri Dec 09 2016

I think you ought to really consider Open Badges.. Providing people with a way to move credit for participation out of the context of your application could really help grow your community. This would particularly lend itself towards undergraduate and graduate students looking for ways to build academic/scientific reputations.