User:Solari/Proposal:DJBWiki Awards

Establishing a number of fun awards for members of the Dark Brotherhood who contribute to the DJBWiki. These are not official (i.e. will not appear on member dossiers but will be placed on user pages.

Problem

"[The] DB being exclusively merit-based and competition-based with regards to how we award medals."

― Muz Ashen, GM Report (11/22/2009)

The criteria for awarding Dark Side Scrolls for activity on the DJBWiki is touch and go (currently not even in practice). The Dark Brotherhood is an environment where members participate in an activity and are rewarded for said activity and when rewards do not come the user member is reluctant to do that activity again.

Mission

The aim of this proposal is to set out a plan in to establish a number of fun awards which can be awarded by Wiki Staff to users (on their user page) so that:

1. Members know that their contributions are noticed and valued.
2. Members feel rewarded for their actions.
3. (Effect of #2) Members want to continue using the wiki.
4. Members can aim to achieve something via wiki use.

Proposed awards

Image	Image Name	Name & Description
The Editor's Award	Editor	The Editor's Award The Editor's Award is awarded to individuals who display particularly fine decisions in general editing. Sometimes, expert text removal is the most effective editing.
The Working Man's Award	WorkingMan	The Working Man's Award The Working Man's Award may be awarded to those who work tirelessly and endlessly on the more laborious or repetitive of DJBWiki tasks.
Minor Award	Minor	The Minor Award Minor edits are often-overlooked, but essential, contributions to the DJBWiki. The Minor Award is awarded for making minor edits of the utmost quality.
Random Acts of Kindness Award	Kindness	The Random Acts of Kindness Award The Random Acts of Kindness Award may be awarded to those that show a pattern of going the extra mile to be nice, without being asked.
Award of Diligence	Diligence	The Award of Diligence The Award of Diligence may be awarded in recognition of a combination of extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service.
Tireless Contributor Award	Tireless	The Tireless Contributor Award The Tireless Contributor Award may be awarded to especially tireless Wikipedians who contribute an especially large body of work without sacrificing quality.
The Anti-Vandalism Award	AntiVandal	The Anti-Vandalism Award The Anti-Vandalism Award may be awarded to those who show great contributions to protecting and reverting attacks of vandalism on DJBWiki. For more information on fighting vandalism, please see DJBWiki:Vandalism.
The Award of Good Humor	Humor	The Award of Good Humor The Award of Good Humor may be awarded to particularly light-spirited Wikipedians who, by their unshakably good humor, consistently and reliably lighten the mood, defuse conflicts, and make the DJBWiki a generally better place to be.
The Resilient Award	Resilient	The Resilient Award The Resilient Award may be given to any editor who learns and improves from criticisms, never lets mistakes or blunders impede their growth as DJBWikipedians, or has the ability to recover/finish with a smile.
The Graphic Designer's Award	Graphics	The Graphic Designer's Award The Graphic Designer's Award may be awarded to those who work tirelessly to provide DJBWiki with free graphic files, either original or a version of a known design (e.g. a country's flag).
File:DaVinci.png	DaVinci	The da Vinci Award The da Vinci Award may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced DJBWiki through their technical work (programming and tools, bot building, link repair, Mediawiki developers, etc.).
File:Copyeditor.PNG	Copyeditor	The Copyeditor's Award The Copyeditor's Award is awarded for excellence in Copyediting. speling grammer and punctunctuacion is, importent spelling grammar and punctuation is, important Spelling grammar and punctuation are, important Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are important!
The Special Award	Special	The Special Award The Special Award may be awarded to a user as a gesture of appreciation for a specific reason, when there is no other Award which would feel as appropriate.
The "What a Brilliant Idea!" Award	BrilliantIdea	The "What a Brilliant Idea!" Award The "What a Brilliant Idea!" Award should be awarded to a user who figures out an elegant solution to a particularly burdensome bottleneck or problem, or who identifies a means to improve DJBWiki in a profound way.
File:Diplomacy.png	Diplomacy	The Award of Diplomacy The Award of Diplomacy is awarded to users who have helped to resolve, peacefully, conflicts on DJBWiki.
File:Invisible.png	Invisible	The Invisible Award The Invisible Award is awarded to users who make significant and helpful contributions to the project, but have kept to the background without seeking recognition or reward for their work.
File:Civility.png	Civility	The Civility Award The Civility Award is intended to reward users for civility. The aim is to award good civility, and not to just warn against bad civility.
DJBWiki Motivation Award	Motivation	The Motivation Award The Motivation Award is awarded to users who do wonders in "gee-ing up the troops" either through general motivation of Wikipedians, or motivate Wikipedians by way of tools, competition, and other such things
File:Rescue.png	Rescue	The Rescue Award The Rescue Award is awarded to people who rescue articles from deletion.
Writer's Award	Writer	The Writer's Award The Writer's Award may be awarded for writing a large number of articles/edits.
The Guidance Award	Guidance	The Guidance Award The Guidance Award may be awarded to users who help others locate valuable resources, information, or assistance.
File:RedLink.PNG	RedLink	The Red Link Removal Award The Red Link Removal Award may be awarded to editors who show diligence in removing red links in articles by creating new articles, correcting the links to connect to appropriate existing articles or deleting links to articles that should not exist.
File:WikiLink.PNG	WikiLink	The Wikilink Award The Wikilink Award may be awarded to users who either add useful links or remove unnecessary links in articles.
File:Admin.png	Admin	The Admin's Award The Admin's Award may be awarded to administrators who made a particularly difficult decision, did a tiresome but needed admin task, cleared some nasty backlog or just to show an administrator that you think they are doing good work in a particular area of "the job" and that their work is appreciated. To be used when other, more specific, Awards do not apply to the reasons at hand.
The Teamwork Award	Teamwork	The Teamwork Award The Teamwork Award may be awarded when several editors work together to improve an article.
The Award of Integrity	Integrity	The Award of Integrity The Award of Integrity may be awarded to those editors who have shown to be a person of integrity and honor. Or, more simply, a stand-up guy/gal.
The Copyright Cleanup Award	Copyright	The Copyright Cleanup Award The Copyright Cleanup Award may be awarded to those contributors who have gone the extra mile in clearing up copyright concerns on DJBWiki.
The Curator Award	Curator	The Curator Award The Curator Award may be awarded to those who have a long history of improving DJBWiki by finding and/or restoring historical files (illustrations, photographs, documents...).
The Recent changes Award	RecentChanges	The Recent changes Award The Recent changes Award is for users who have been doing a lot of helpful work while patrolling Recent changes.

Receiving Multiple Ribbons

Image name	Image
Image:2.png	File:2.png
Image:3.png	File:3.png
Image:4.png	File:4.png
Image:5.png	File:5.png
Image:6.png	File:6.png
Image:7.png	File:7.png
Image:8.png	File:8.png
Image:9.png	File:9.png
Image:star.png	File:Star.png
The star is intended to represent when a user has received a particular award 10 or more times. Double digit numerals could easily crowd the ribbon and obscure its identifying colors, making it more difficult for users to know which award it represents. As being awarded the same award ten times is rather rare, this isn't expected to be a common problem.

Usage

DJBWiki Awards

This is generated by:

<div class="ribbon-container">
==DJBWiki Awards==
{{Ribbon|Editor}}
{{Ribbon|RecentChanges|2}}
{{Ribbon|Kindness|9}}
{{Ribbon|WorkingMan|5}}
{{Ribbon|Admin|star}}
{{Ribbon|Civility}}
{{Ribbon|Invisible|8}}
</div>

Type {{Ribbon|Name of ribbon/award|Number}}

• For only one award, leave the Number field blank.
• Numbers over 9 will display a star, this will allow us to track how many of these a user has if we need to check in the future. (may or may not be working, if it doesn't work write star instead of a number)

When awarding a ribbon, place a notification on the user's talk page explaining why they were awarded it. Group under the heading "==DJBWiki Awards==".

Requirements

1. A page listing the awards and what they are awarded for.
2. Wiki staff being informed on when and how to award wiki awards.
3. (Alternative to point two)Two or three staff members dedicated to rewarding users.

Optional

Starwars-esk images could be created by the Herald staff or a volunteer from the Brotherhood membership.

Credit

Wikipedia:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ribbons
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards

In the name of the Iron Throne,

The Much Honored, Battlelord Vexxtal
A.K.A.Windos
SBL Vexxtal (Sith)/AED/Cestus of Tarentum
AK / SB / SC-CoP / AC-ToSL / DC-SiP / GN-BL / BN / Cr-2R-3A-5S-16E-9T-7Q / PoB / CF-SF / DSS / SI-BL / SoL-TC / LS-AgL / S:-2M-2R-4Al-3C-16D-1Dk-3Rm