Talk:Requests for comment

Wikisource/Wikipedia Game

We are developing an open-source online educational game to promote engagement with primary sources which we propose would involve (1) contributing quality primary sources to Wikisource, (2) contributing new articles in Wikipedia, and (3) creating links from Wikisource documents to relevant Wikipedia articles using the appropriate template. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikisource). We’d like to solicit your feedback to ensure that the game is in keeping with the spirit and practices of the Wikimedia community. Umbrellas000 (talk) 00:15, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Sources

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It seems to me that all your words will be interpreted as primary research unless you can reference them to a credible publication.

Sight unseen, it also seems credible to me that a game will not attract significant controversy, and, based on Wikipedia custom and practice as opposed to its rules, you can say more or less anything you want to.

If your opening statement is sincere, I'd start with a description of the defining features of the game, and then the defining features for wanting to mention it here.

Regards Peter S Strempel | Talk 03:03, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia/Wikisource Game Clarification

Thank you for the feedback, Peter. We are designing the game to limit primary sources to Wikisource and will also instruct players to base their Wikipedia articles on credible secondary sources. I'm sorry that we didn't make that clear in the initial RfC, but we were trying to be concise. The 'game' might better be described as an example of 'gamification' in which participants receive points and badges for performing non-game-like actions. So, the defining characteristics of the game are the 3 actions listed in our original message. We posted the original comment because we wanted to get feedback from the Wikipedia community before proceeding, to ensure that we do not promote any activities that the community finds objectionable.

Umbrellas000 (talk) 20:12, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

I think this is a really interesting idea and I'm looking forward to find out what you eventually design. Improving the citations on articles can only benefit everyone. Surely a key point will be that players will have individual wikipedia accounts and any edits which (for whatever reason) do not cut the mustard can be reverted in the normal way. I think any tool which encourages improvement of article content should be welcomed. --Mr impossible (talk) 09:16, 21 July 2011 (UTC)