barnstars in A Sentence

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    In other words, the Barnstars seemed to be discouraging rather than encouraging contribution.

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    Because I have no Barnstars to give, nor am I near any barns from which to steal them…[edit].

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    Much to their surprise, the people to whom they awarded Barnstars tended to make fewer edits after receiving one.

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    Or you could imagine a situation where a research would want to isolate the effect of Barnstars from all these other things.

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    In particular, they studied the effects of Barnstars, an award that any Wikipedian can give to any other Wikipedian to acknowledge hard work and due diligence.

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    Finally, when the researchers compared people in the treatment group(i.e., received Barnstars) and people in the control group, they found that the barnstar caused editors to contribute about 60% more.

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    That is, Restivo and van de Rijt didn't want to give Barnstars to undeserving editors, and they didn't want their experiment to disrupt the Wikipedia community(Restivo and Rijt 2012, 2014).

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