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closeRelevance of rewards
Posted by WereSpielChequers on 01 Apr 2012 at 07:05 GMT
That's an interesting study, and fits in with my own experience of appointing Autopatrollers on Wikipedia. But I wonder how relevant your particular barnstar awards were, and whether relevance makes a difference. My assumption is that it does, so a barnstar awarded for writing a particular article that someone enjoyed reading, or for a particular article review or even for fixing lots of typos would have more impact than one given without a tailored rationale.
RE: Relevance of rewards
TahaYasseri replied to WereSpielChequers on 04 May 2012 at 20:54 GMT
I have more or less the same question, however a possible answer can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/...
And if this the IP address, who distribute the awards at random, then I think the results could be potentially very much biased, as it is totally different from the normal process of awarding by real editors.