Point System for Contributors

[blockspeiser]

A sensible point system tracking contributions will help us to identifying trustworthy contributors and may motivate participation.

The simplest version of this just counts the number of activity items per user in the history collection. This could be easily gamed.

The question is, what are the relative values of the following actions:

• adding / editing a new segment of text
• adding / editing text info for a new text
• adding / editing an original translation
• adding / editing a new connection
• adding / editing a note

Quetions:

• Should the length of text added / editing affect points or is each segment equal?
• Should the depth of an edit affect points or are all edit equal?
• Should we doc points when an edit is reverted? or for other yet to be implemented signals that contribution is not good.

[blockspeiser]

There's now a section for top contributors on the activity page which uses the most naive point system imaginable -- it simply counts the number of items in the history collection with each users name on them.

This works, but already has some suboptimal behavior. E.g., if you add a line break on a page of Talmud, this counts as an edit / add for each subsequent line. Changing the first line only might net you 50 points if the page has 50 lines. I don't know the best way to identify this case given the way data is currently stored.

[blockspeiser]

Points are now calculated in a recurring job, and have different weights for different kinds of activities. I tried to give more points to tasks that take more time and especially weight points towards creating original translations. Still not perfect, the problem above about line breaks still applies, but something to work with. See sefaria/data/scripts/leaderboards.py.