Forum:Achievements Extension

Achievements Extension: What is it?
Achievements is a great way to encourage contributions, award individuals and promote community growth on your wiki. Individuals can earn special badges by simply participating on any wiki that has Achievements enabled. Badges are awarded automatically as a user completes the tasks associated with them. Available and achieved badges are listed on one's user page.

Request Achievements?
Hello! So here an extension I found, which I think it could be interesting to try. First some clarifications: Here a wiki that is using them. If you look in someone profile you can see what are those badges and for what they've been earned.
 * I myself don't know much about it, but for what I see basically you earn "badges" modifying and participating in the wiki.
 * Each badge is worth some points so there is a rank system too based on the points you earned. Now, this isn't really a race for who edits the most, because the badges are based on unique events and (for what I see) they can be earned one time each. For example, the most stupid one, "for making 1 edit on a page", you will got only the first time. And some events aren't really controllable, for example making the 50,000th edit on the wiki, so even if the problem of the "race to useless edits" isn't totally gone, the objective of the extension is to encourage participating the wiki activities.
 * If someone doesn't like them or he finds them annoying he can hide them in his preferences.
 * The points are not retroactive, but start counting once the wiki have achievements on it.
 * The badge can be personalized and so the event triggers.
 * I think the points are shared by all the wikis who have achievements installed (not sure).

So, if we decides they worthing a try, then an admin can send a request to Special:Contact, and a staff member will enable it for us. Let's discuss it for now, and eventually vote, if necessary. 22:16, May 25, 2011 (UTC)