Daniel Navarro (Young Wikimedian. Video games and computer science graduate and collaborator on WDO)
You can find my gamification documents here and my WDO ones here.
Abstract
Perhaps we are reluctant to think that Wikipedia is gamified, being a serious encyclopedia. But does Wikipedia contain game mechanics in its different spaces?
As a final university project, I was determined to use Gamification (apply game design elements into non-game contexts) on Wikipedia. That lead me to investigate which aspects of Wikipedia could be identified as “game mechanics”.
Indeed, I discovered various elements that could be seen as Gamification which were key to sustain editors’ motivation.
In the end, I designed a small Gamification Proposal with three activities.
If you want to know more or even prove Wikipedia is not gamified, come and enjoy this talk!
Session Outcomes
- Learn what gamification is.
- Learn why gamification is so powerful in building community health.
- Learn what elements are found to be gamified inside Wikipedia.
- Understand how difficult gamification actually is and how it could be applied.