Wiki is seriously skimping on the amount of points awarded? - Bug Reporting

#1 Edited by dungbootle (2247 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

This may not even be a bug, but I remember it being said that the new wiki would reward small contributions, like typos more generously than before. I'm not even getting much from typing whole paragraphs at a time and it's worse than the last site. If this is intentional, then nevermind, that's your decision, but it seems weird at the moment.

#2 Edited by Bourbon_Warrior (4493 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

GET THEM POINTS!

#3 Posted by big_jon (5065 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

I think it's awarding more than it used to.

#4 Posted by LtSquigs (154 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

The formula for text edits is:

((New Length - Old Length) / 100) * 8

With a minimum of 1 point. The other point totals were all hashed out with the moderators.

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#5 Posted by LtSquigs (154 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

I should clarify, thats the formula for guides and bodies. Decks, titles, etc are static

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#6 Posted by _k1_ (173 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

@ltsquigs: I added one sentence to this page and it gave me 406 points.

#7 Edited by TobbRobb (3300 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

If the rewards are based on added text, do you get nothing or very little for fixing grammatical errors and typoes?

#8 Posted by LordAndrew (13812 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

@tobbrobb said:

If the rewards are based on added text, do you get nothing or very little for fixing grammatical errors and typoes?

If the formula works out to anything less than 2, you will get one point.

@ltsquigs: Is HTML markup counted in the formula?

#9 Edited by LtSquigs (154 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

@lordandrew: No

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#10 Posted by LordAndrew (13812 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

@ltsquigs: So all the tags are stripped before doing the equation? That's good. On the old site, simply formatting text would net an unexpectedly large amount of points because the HTML was adding to the total size.

#11 Posted by LtSquigs (154 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

@lordandrew: Yep its just characters you type.

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#12 Edited by NoRemnants (304 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

I fixed some seriously broken formatting from the old site. Spent about 25 minutes on it and got a measly 3 points out of it.

I've been a member since day 1 of the GB launch and have 474 wiki points. I don't do a lot of writing because frankly, I'm not a very good writer. I do like going through and attaching characters/concepts and formatting pages. I don't really care about the points, I'd just like to be able to bypass the mod queue but at the rate points are being given out, It will take me years to get there.

#13 Posted by Subjugation (4328 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

I'm much more of an editor than a content creator. I'm the guy who proof-reads your stuff and makes corrections rather than write the body of text. I would love to do that on wiki entries, but I've never felt like those kind of contributions were well recognized. Is it any better with the new wiki system?

#14 Posted by StarFoxA (4905 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

Editing releases seem to give an exorbitant amount of points, while creating a release doesn't give an equivalent amount compared to the former. For example, if I edit a release and add data to two or three fields, it's giving me 15-20 points, whereas creating a new release with every field complete awards seven points.

#15 Posted by snide (2389 posts) - 3 months, 5 days ago

We'll continue to tweak the scoring after we get passed our overall stability problems.

Points in general though are a bit of a bunk science. It's very hard to figure out automated ways to calculate the worth of an edit.