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Karma, Medals and Badges!
You want more fun while working? Writing blog entries, commenting on other articles and simply using Confluence on a daily basis with even more fun. Even if you already have successfully established Confluence, the Plugin Karma offers you additional value. Your Wiki offers a few functions that are probably as good as never used – what a shame for all the great effects! Do you and your colleagues update your statuses daily? Do you tag key words in every blog entry to make the search for content easier? No? Then just wait until you have installed Karma. Using all these functions earns Karma points. Karma for Confluence offers your Wiki a new kind of power and more fun, even for the most enthusiastic user. Get in the competition and earn some Karma!
Karma
So, what will give you the big points? Actually this depends on your Karma configuration in the administration, but here is the list of the standard Karma setting.
+15 pts. | Create a blog post |
+10 pts. | Create a page |
+3 pts. | Create a comment |
+5 pts. | Label a page or blog post |
+10 pts. | Other people like your content |
+2 pts. | Write a Status Update |
+2 pts. | Follow someone |
+10 pts. | Someone is following you |
+20 pts. | Create s personal Space |
+3 pts. | Edit a blog post |
+3 pts. | Edit a page |
+2 pts. | Follow a space |
+2 pts. | Follow a page |
+2 pts. | Follow a blog post |
+30 pts. | Receive a medal |
But there is a catch: You can also loose your Karma! (This option can be fully configured in the Karma configuration and is disabled by default.)
Karma for each user
Each user link in Confluence shows the current karma points of that specific user. Here are some examples:
Medals
Someone made your day today? Show it and reward a medal.
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| Hero of the day |
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| Busy Bee |
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| Life Saver |
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| Genius |
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| Thank You |
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| Time-Saver |
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| Great Time |
You can award a medal either by using the Karma Overview or via the hover profile card of a user:
Badges
Besides Karma, you can earn some badges. For particular actions or an accumulation of activities, you can obtain Badges. Nearly everyone can get the Badge ‘Mayfly’. But who will be able to land the titles of ‘Label Neurotic’ or ‘Morning Bird’? So, if you are active, you will be rewarded with the acquisition of badges.
| Message in a Bottle Write a comment |
| Hello World Update your Status |
| Wet paint! Create a new page |
| Mayfly Create a new blogpost |
| Highlighter Add a label |
| Sputnik Follow someone |
| Love Letter Get 30 likes for one comment, page or blogpost |
| Morning Bird Login to the system before 8am |
| Night Owl Login to the system after 9pm |
| Lighthouse At least 30 people follow you |
| Commentator Write 100 Comments |
| Label Neurotic Label 1000 pages or blogposts |
| Like an open book Write 1000 status updates |
| Newspaper Man Add 1000 pages or blogposts |
The Karma Overview
How to get there?
The Karma Overview provides detailed information about a users karma points. It is reachable via the user profile view or the user dropdown.
Karma history graph, ranking and badges
The left column provides a graph which shows the current karma progress. This graph will be updated once a day. Below the graph the last 20 karma point events will be listed. The top right link on this column leads to a dialog that shows all actions that a user is able to get karma for.
The middle column shows all users which already gained karma sorted descending by their karma points. The currently selected karma user is highlighted in green.
The right column displays the users badges. It shows the already achieved badges and the badges which the user is currently working on. The top right link on this column leads to a dialog with all available badges.