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!
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.
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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.)
In general, the number of collected Karma points is shown behind the names of the users. Here are some examples:
Someone made your day today? Show it and award a medal.
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(P.S.: Receiving a medal will give you some Karma Points, too!)
Besides Karma, you can obtain badges for particular actions or an accumulation of activities. Nearly everyone can get the Badge ‘Mayfly’. But will you 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.
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You can reach it via the user profile view or the user dropdown.
The Karma Overview provides detailed information about Karma Points of a single user. You can have a look at your Karma Overview, but also the one of your team members.
It is divided into four parts: Karma History, Karma Ranking, Medals, Badges
Neuer Screenshot mit Confiugration-Button!!
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What a pity! But here we go: In your own Karma Overview click the Button "Configuration". It is located in the upper right corner of the screen. Simply deselect your participation in the pop-up and you won't be listed anymore. If you want to join again, you won't have to start from the scratch. Just select the participation again and you will start, where you left (except the configuration is set to loose Karma over the time, if you are not active.).
In the Administration of Confluence you have the option to configure Karma.
You can decide whether or not Karma Points are shown on each user link.
You don't want to give Karma, when you search for something? You want to receive more Karma on the editing of a page? You want that your users have to regain Karma? No problem! In the Karma Events section you can choose for each event, if it will give Karma and how much Karma Point is earned by doing so.
Furthermore you can define, how much Karma will be lost (or gained) over the time. This affects all users, but it won't decrease Karma Points from a user, who has 0 Karma Points. If you want to regularly decrease 5 Karma Points you need to fill in "-5". To schedule the interval of the in- or decrease you need go to the "Scheduled Jobs" administration. Choose "Edit" on the "Karma Decrease/Increase Job" and define the new interval via Cron Expression.
You can go back to the standard setting by clicking the reset button.
If you do not want or need all of the badges, you can decide one by one, which badge will be available.
Additionally to the option to limit the variety of medals, you can define how much medals per day a user can award to another user. The standard is 2.
Karma Decrease/Increase Job