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Wikipedia is Adding a Love Button Next Week

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Couldn't editors be equally motivated by a demonstration that people are finding and reading their articles? Wikipedia could release unique-visitor and time-on-page metrics, and instantly make editors feel super valued.

WikiRank used to be a super useful tool for this. I've no idea where they got their data from, but it was fascinating.

Yeah, also maybe some ownership to, to most reading wikipedia it appears as a data source that all comes from an unknown source. Sure you can dig a bit and see who added what to each article, but maybe it would be good to list contributors, especially if something is primarily the effort of one person somewhere prominent in the articles.

One of the central tenets of Wikipedia is that there is no ownership. This is intended to mean that no editor had any authority over any other editor when it came to article content, and anything like what you're suggesting would conflict with that.

They do publish at least basic pageview data (which is how http://stats.grok.se/ works). But absolutely, they should make detailed metrics much more visible, which would help.

"Like" on facebook

"+1" on google

"Check-in" on foursquare

"Tweet" on Twitter

Have we become binary? It seems everything is done to lower the barrier of creating content. NFC will drop that barrier further down and we will live our lives while creating data.

I think the logical conclusion will be a YC '13 startup that aggregates and streamlines all your different karma/points/favs/likes/checkin accounts and implements NFC into it all for points across the board. Integrate it IRL by giving points for things like "I brushed my teeth twice", "I filed the TPS report", "I got my sister a birthday present". And by then, IPv6 would be fully rolled out and everything (right guys?), even your toothbrush, would have its own IP and small nano chip with a minimal TCP/IP stack to tweet/checkin/+1 your life-game account on namb.ly (YC '13). The line between what is Real and what is part of the great RPG of life we all become part of gets further blurred with the further advancement of augmented reality and its ubiquity in our phones, glasses, contact lenses, electric car windshields, and holographic advertisements everywhere. The future is going to be a blast.

But as always, things progress and get amazing and we live in yesterday's future, yet no one is that impressed. I fear the day we go meh to the RPG of life that will inevitably develop in the future. Only then will we reminisce and wonder, "what was it like to be truly human?".

If mediocrity is your thing, then collecting karma (for brushing your teeth? haahhaha) sounds great! Or if you're a herd animal for that matter.

I hope the future will be more than just decadence and the denial of life.

Some of my friends make fun of me for having as much faith in humanity as you do.

What makes you think we're not experiencing "decadence and the denial of life" now?

Suggested reading: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

Sounds like http://www.greengoose.com/

NFC? Near-field communication?

Awesome. I feel appreciation is one of the main reasons why I'm much more willing to write content on Quora than Wikipedia. Hopefully this will change that!

It seems to suggest that only registered users can 'love' an article. If it could be done by anyone you just know it would be organized so that the most loved articles were child porn, nazis, santorum and similar.

I was thinking that it was going to be about 'love'-ing an article or topic, too, which would mean awkward pledges like 'I love bone cancer!'. Being interested in a topic does not mean you 'love' or 'like' it.

However, upon reading the article, this is not about marking articles, but rather a way to send accolades to fellow Wikipedia editors.

"Wikipedia is Adding a Love Button Next Week"

like, a clitoris? let's hope not, men will never be able to find it.

Good, this must mean they've solved the deletionist problem and have moved on to other things more important...oh wait, they haven't.

sigh

And next up is the "gotta have it" button.

please, someone get this joke.

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