Wikipedia and beyond: Incentivizing engagement
Nicole EbberWikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/incentives
About Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Founded in 2004 Approved non-profit organisation Berlin office Staff of 20 employees 1200+ members (as of July 2011) Thousands of volunteers
Volunteers
What they spend on the WM projects: Passion Knowledge Skills Time
How we support them: Infrastructure Communication Experience Money
What motivates you to contribute?
I want to support Free Knowledge I like being part of a bigger whole My work is appreciated I want to help others ‘cause it’s fun, and my friends are here I like competing with others I can win a prize
Zedler-Medal (2007-2010)
Goal: Engage external experts Best scientific (Natural Science, Humanities)
Wikipedia articles Frist prize: 2 x 2,000 €, sponsored by
partners Enhanced promotion 30 submissions per year Nearly only Wikipedians Goals not reached Relaunch in 2011: Zedler Award for Free
Knowledge
Zedler-Medal (2007-2010)
CC-BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons, Elya
CC-BY-SA-3.0, Wikimedia Commons , Raimond Spekking
WissensWert (2010)
Kick-start ideas to become great Free Knowledge projects
Grant: up to 5,000 € per project 93 submissions Mostly from non-Wikipedians Jury + open voting: 8 projects financed and
supervised Nice Social Media coverage To be optimized and continued in 2011
CC-BY, Wikipedia, Daniel Christensen
CC-BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons, Elya
Wiki loves Monuments (2010-2011)
Photo contest for monuments in NL Everyone can participate iPad, non-monetary prizes Hunting and gathering! 12,500 submitted photos Nice press coverage 2011: European contest
Three kinds of contests and prizes:
2,000 € prize for one article and one person
5,000 € grant to realize a project, collaboratively
non-monetary prizes for hunting & gathering
Wikimedia DeutschlandGesellschaft zur Förderung Freien
Wissens e.V.
Further information:http://wikimedia.de
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/incentives
Contact: [email protected]
Twitter: @WikimediaDEFacebook: WMDEev
What is your experience with competitions and incentives?
Wikimedia Italy Wikimedia UK Wikimedia Czech Wikimedia Nederland YOU? Be bold! Try sth new :)
CC-BY-SA, Flickr, opensourceway
THANKS!
Unless otherwise noted, this presentation is licensed under the
Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
Links
http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Zedler-Medaille http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Wissenswert
http://vimeo.com/27002584 http://libreprojects.net/ http://blog.wikimedia.de/2011/07/28/wissenswert-public-dom
ain-projekt/ http://
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/incentives
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