Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Leaderboard

Metrics

This is very cool. We should be a little careful not to overreward mere bytes, which could lead to unintentional word inflation without adding quality content. Not what we'd expect from college students, but everyone can respond to incentives, and verbosity is not the gold-standard for writing either. Maybe a different metric could be the default, such as average bytes per day, which would encourage consistency, or total references added, or some composite number that would be harder to become biased towards. Ocaasi (talk) 23:42, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Script or bot?

Epistemophiliac (ChrisC on IRC) came in to IRC and asked how leaderboard is updated. I had a look around and couldn't find any obvious information other than the twice weekly update. Is it done manually or is there a bot/script that does this? Do students need to add themselves to a category in order to have their edits tabulated? Thanks so much! Basket of Puppies 04:01, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's done manually at the moment, but we're looking to set up a bot do update it.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 14:18, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]