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Hello fellow Brickipedians! I would like to propose that Wikia's new achievements are enabled on Brickipedia. There are benefits and down sides to this, which I have listed below. Feel free to add to this list.
- Advantages
- Attract more users
- Encourage editing/community interaction
- Make Samdo994 and Ajraddatz happy :D
- Ultimately make Brickipedia more active, with new users and more edits per day!
- Disadvantages
- Oh, ya, it takes up some space on your userpage to display the badges.
See w:c:farmville:Special:Leaderboard and w:c:farmville:Special:MyPage for specifics on the badges, how it works, etc. The badges are awarded automatically for various things, such as joining the wiki, making an edit, adding images to a page, etc. There are currently no awards that can be manually given out, although I've requested that manual awards could be made part of the system. We can customize the images/names of the badges, but nothing else. Please comment! ajr 14:32, June 21, 2010 (UTC)
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The badges will be enabled on Wednesday, if nobody opposes. ajr 19:51, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose I honesty dislike the idea. I mean really, we can save the image and just put the information on a userbox. And, really, wants them? There are some ridiculous ones I say anyone can get and receive little of anything out of it. :P -Mariofighter3: Brickfliming now in session! 20:54, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose I partly agree with MF3, but I don't think a wikia this big really needs them. They really don't serve much purpose. I also don't like the idea of that stuff on our user pages, and it will attract even more spammers.--Agent Chase:
:Agents in Action! 21:03, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- First of all, "If a user doesn't want these on their userpage, they can request that the display be removed from their page." Second of all, how is this going to attract spammers? See w:c:help:Help:Spam. ajr 21:07, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
Comment - They attract new editors. They encourage editing. Those are both things that this wiki needs. We are not a big wiki. Oh, I forgot to say. If a user doesn't want these on their userpage, they can request that the display be removed from their page. Then they won't be affected by this in any way. ajr 21:05, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- It will bring more people in sure, but who says they are all good users?--Agent Chase: :Agents in Action! 21:16, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- That is such as weak argument. Any users that we get would necessarily be "good", no matter what way we get them. This won't increase the % of bad users joining; it will increase the number of total users joining. ajr 21:20, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- So you just want more users? You don't care if they are good or bad?--Agent Chase: :Agents in Action! 16:55, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
- More users invariably equals more good users. What don't you get about that? ajr 18:46, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
- I have seen many users who are not good and have been brought onto a wiki by something like this. I'm not saying it will happen, but if it dose, we have to be ready.--Agent Chase:
:Agents in Action! 18:59, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
- I have seen many users who are not good and have been brought onto a wiki by something like this. I'm not saying it will happen, but if it dose, we have to be ready.--Agent Chase:
- More users invariably equals more good users. What don't you get about that? ajr 18:46, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
- So you just want more users? You don't care if they are good or bad?--Agent Chase:
- That is such as weak argument. Any users that we get would necessarily be "good", no matter what way we get them. This won't increase the % of bad users joining; it will increase the number of total users joining. ajr 21:20, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Strong Oppose - I personally hate things that clog up my userpage, I think, personally, the icons look childish, and a bunch of other reasons that are in my IRC logs.. Oh, btw, those results are unfair, for evidence I also have in my logs, I think it was something to do with a FarmVille update or what not.. --Lewis Cawte (Talk - Contact) 21:18, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Support - Hey if you don't want them taking up too much space on your userpage, use the hide/show thing Clone Commander Fox 21:37, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Neutral - I tried out the system on Iron Man Wiki and it isn't half bad. However, it cheapens your work because instead of a goal you are trying to get a badge...while this is not a bad thing, and neither is competition that drives up editors, I'm not sure if this is necessary. Also, I kinda agree with Lcawte
BobaFett
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When the badges are removed from a users userpage, can they still be looked up somewhere else? Or is the only place to see one's badges the userpage? Samdo994 talk contribs 08:52, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
You can look them up on the achievements leaderboard. BobaFett
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- I mean the own recieved badges. Samdo994 talk contribs 12:42, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
- Support - I just like the look of them :) And they're an optional extra, so you can remove them if you don't want to take part in it NightblazeSaber 22:41, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
- Weaker support than before. Had a look on wikis which use them, and the layout's terrible on monobook. Don't suppose anyone knows if Wikia's implementing any future fixes in relation to this? NightblazeSaber 06:39, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
- This is a very new extension, which is still in it's "beta" version. There are many things being fixed. ajr 08:16, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
- I support it, and you know why. ;) -Nerfblasterpro: I PRESS SMASH BUTTON! 14:39, June 29, 2010 (UTC)
- I support it, and you know why. ;) -Nerfblasterpro: I PRESS SMASH BUTTON!
- This is a very new extension, which is still in it's "beta" version. There are many things being fixed. ajr 08:16, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
Support - per something or another Kingcjc 16:39, June 29, 2010 (UTC)
- Does somebody know, how exactly to enable and disable them? And Ajraddatz, do you know what things may/will be changed? Samdo994 talk contribs 20:16, June 30, 2010 (UTC)
- Can hide the user page thing, but cant get the space to clear at the moment. --Lewis Cawte (Talk - Contact) 06:14, July 1, 2010 (UTC)
- @Lcawte: is that using "Hide my achievements on my user page when I visit it and don't notify me of earned badges" in Special:Preferences? Also, I just had a look at it in Monaco, can't say I'm a huge fan of the way it squishes the userpage up :S Don't suppose there's a way to have it at the bottom of the userpage like in Monobook (monobook preview of my page- sorry Special:Mypage doesn't work with the skin preview, and I had to link it to someone's page), but have the decent formatting of Monaco? The concept of the awards system itself I'm still a big fan of though NightblazeSaber 07:02, July 1, 2010 (UTC)
@NHL: I was thinking about having the badges in a horizontal scrolling box at the top of a userpage, like the widget list. That isn't possible, is it? And are my achievements lost if I tick the "Hide my achievements on my user page when I visit it and don't notify me of earned badges" box and untick it again? Samdo994 talk contribs 10:40, July 1, 2010 (UTC)
Someone (BobaFett2 Prods Ajraddatz and Lcawte with a really big stick) should invent a CSS to make it appear on the top of the page instead of the side. BobaFett
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- What user rights do you need to turn them on? (Wiki-wide) Jag 03:51, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry, I don't understand the question. The extension can be enabled on request per Special:Contact on any wiki. ajr 03:55, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
- If your stupid enough to want them on your wiki, Contact Wikia (Special:Contact) and show a community consensus, plus be a admin/crat. --Lewis Cawte (Talk - Contact) 06:12, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
@Lcawte: Your being a bit mean...it's not stupid-some wikis need activity and some people want to be able to see the list of badges too. BobaFett
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- Per Boba, and can non-admins see the list? Jag 20:05, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
- No, the badges page is restricted to sysops only NightblazeSaber 23:46, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Can you take a picture of them and upload it then please? I REALLY want to see them. Jag 06:22, July 3, 2010 (UTC)
- Then it takes away the secret D: ajr 14:39, July 3, 2010 (UTC)
- Per Ajr :) NightblazeSaber 00:49, July 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Okay then, can you tell me what it goes up to? Like is there one for making 100,000 edits? Jag 01:03, July 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Per Ajr :) NightblazeSaber 00:49, July 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Then it takes away the secret D: ajr 14:39, July 3, 2010 (UTC)