How about introducing badges on the user’s profile to show how they rank in the RC Patrol list? This would be a sense of encouragement for users to do the RC Patrol, and would credit users for their contribution to the community. I’d recommend setting it so that it monitors the 7 Day ranking, because the 24 hour list changes to quickly. --Just a suggestion<!----Put Hole-Picking Code Here ;)------->
RCP is a very important tool on wikiHow. Every edit has to be carefully read and evaluated. If it is good, it is patrolled. If not, it’s rolled back. I wouldn’t want to see a lot of new users trying to climb the leaderboard by patrolling fast. By the time the patrol coach unpatrols the edits, or someone going through the patrol log notices bad patrols (and unpatrols them), a lot of damage would have already been done to our articles.
system
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Now *that* is a good point.
I agree with the above. Patrolling is more about quality and quantity. I would also like to add that if others see this badge on one’s user page, they might want to “compete” with the user to do may patrols. This can be damaging to the site because bad edits will probably be approved, and good work may get rolled back. As mentioned before, readers of wikiHow might also have a bad reputation of the site due to vandalism.
I understand that. Thank you and @IGriffiths
for the suggestion. I appreciate that you are trying to make wikiHow a better place!
So, is that Idea capable of being noted down?
I’m not sure of that yet, but probably not due to the concerns that @gaurangprasad
raised. Waiting until other community members share their thoughts on this idea would be best.
Shinako
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I’d like to echo what others have said._Quality over Quantity_This is a big motto that we all follow. If your idea applies, people would just do a lot of nonsense patrolling for the mere sake of getting the badge. And, technically they would get the badge- for doing nonsense? and those who actually do good patrolling (and of course do less since it does takes some time) what would they get? Nothing. So, it would be like encouraging people to do such tasks for wearing the badge, not realising how many articles they would have destroyed. I have a doubt. Would that badge appear along with the other badges? I’d likew to list some points about that: 1) For people with already four badges, it might be too compact on their user page and spoil the formatting of their page. 2) For every seven days, it has to be updated and so on, it would be a hectic task, I feel. So, I personally do not vote for this idea, but it’s good that you’re coming up with some ways to offer help to making our community better.
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It really isn’t important to have a badge. If you have been doing great patrolling, ot will be noticed and appreciated.
I agree with @mrappbrain
.
Threads like this can die out on their own.
I have been a member of the community but a short time, but have already seen a lot of work created
by individuals striving for numbers and recognition. In the overall scheme of things, an unhelpful edit should actually detract from any accumulation which shows on a scoreboard. If someone goes through a set of articles and removes the tags without doing anything, the edit will have to be reverted and the rollback patrolled. Net contribution in this case is negative. True contribution to the community mission is reflected by a sum of products: Number of edits times some incremental measure of value added (positive or negative). The calculation of perceived added value is, therefore, best done by humans and not
by a counter within a software program. I point out that this calculation is made on a daily basis by community members and the results are communicated through personal messages which show appreciation for positive effort. I observe that a lot of effort is expended undoing the edits of individuals who chase recognition and numbers. And, further, that the value of a contributor is recognized in many ways, the most important being the inner knowledge that (s)he has helped to improve community understanding, processes, and articles.
