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Experience points
Experience points is a feature of WikiMapia that helps to automatically determine Experience levels. They accumulate automatically in your account based on your contributions to the WikiMapia project.
The table below shows a list of experience points gained per action, Extra points* are awarded if you have joined a collaboration.
| Actions | Points | Extra Points* |
|---|---|---|
| Place deletion request | +10 | |
| Place deletion request cancellation | +10 | |
| Place restoration request | +10 | |
| Place restoration request cancellation | +10 | |
| Polygon addition to place | +50 | |
| Place polygon edition | +35 | |
| Polygon addition to place without a polygon | +50 | +50 (collaboration Adding polygons to places without polygons) |
| Place or street protection | +10 | |
| Place or street protection removing | +10 | |
| Marking place as buildings | +10 | |
| Correction place mistakenly marked as buildings | +10 | |
| Title addition to place or street | +50 | |
| Title deletion from place or street | +10 | |
| Title edition for place or street | +25 | |
| Description addition to place or street | +50 | |
| Description deletion from place or street | +10 | |
| Description edition for place or street | +25 | |
| Wikipedia link addition to place or street | +15 | |
| Wikipedia link deletion from place or street | +10 | |
| Wikipedia link edition for place or street | +10 | |
| Street name addition to place address | +15 | |
| Street name deletion from place address | +5 | |
| Street name edition for place address | +10 | |
| House number addition to place address | +15 | |
| House number deletion from place address | +5 | |
| House number edition for place address | +10 | |
| Categories addition to place | +15 | |
| Categories deletion from place | +10 | |
| Photo addition to place or street | +100 | |
| Photo deletion from place or street | +10 | |
| Photo restoration for place or street | +10 | |
| Revision undone | 0 | |
| Revision redone | 0 | |
| Comment addition to place or street | 0 | |
| Nested places attaching | +10 | |
| Nested places detaching | +10 | |
| Road creation (1 km) | +10 | |
| Railroad creation (1 km) | +10 | |
| Ferry creation (1 km) | +1 | |
| River creation (1 km) | +10 | |
| Photo deletion from place or street (from the creator) | -150 | |
| Photo restoration for place or street (to the creator) | +150 | |
| Place without polygon deletion request | +10 | +10 (collaboration Adding polygons to places without polygons) |
| History revision approved | +10 | |
| Comment deletion from place or street | 0 | |
| Comment addition to photo | 0 | |
| Comment deletion from photo | 0 | |
| Create category | +10 | |
| Add category synonyms | +10 | |
| Delete category synonyms | +10 | |
| Add category parents | +10 | |
| Delete category parents | +10 | |
| Add category childs | +10 | |
| Delete category childs | +10 | |
| Category name edit | +10 | |
| Add category description | +10 | |
| Delete category description | +10 | |
| Place deletion (from the creator) | -250 | |
| Place restoration (to the creator) | +250 |
* Extra points are given if a user has joined a collaboration
User levels
There are three basic levels of users:
- Level 0 (UL0): unregistered or newly registered, can perform simple functions like adding locations. Subject to certain restrictions to avoid vandalism.
- Level 1 (UL1): registered users can access almost all functions available.
- Level 2 (UL2): Advanced users can access all functions and has some administrative privileges (protect articles, ban users, among others).
The acronyms refer to the nomenclature in English. For example UL2 comes from English User Level 2.
Rank
How your score ranks amoung other users, the score is determined by the number of places and Linear features are created.
Awards
One to three award stars are automatically given based on various thresholds of one's stats, including:
- Place creation
- Place edition
- Photos addition
- Roads creation
- Railroads creation
- Rivers creation
Voting
Voting is our method of providing positive feedback to you about your contributions to WikiMapia, and for you to provide positive feedback to other users about theirs. People who make a positive contribution to WikiMapia ("describing the world" by creating useful and well-described places) are deserving of a positive vote.
Special roles
Wikimapia Team
| Wikimapia Team members | Real name |
|---|---|
| koriakine | Alexandre Koriakine (co-founder) |
| jacksav | Evgeniy Saveliev (co-founder) |
| flr | Evgeniy Udodov |
| lnklnklnk | Alexander Eroshkin |
| mikkey | Mikhail Tarbeev |
| w8r | Alexander Milevski (front-end engineer) |
Forum moderators
This role allows the use of moderator tools in the Wikimapia forum. It is given by Wikimapia Team members.
Categories moderators
This role allows the use of moderator tools for Wikimapia categories. It is given by Wikimapia Team members.
Advanced Users
This role is awarded to a member of Wikimapia who has good standing and it provides additional tools and responsibilities to take care of WikiMapia. It is given by the Wikimapia Team members mostly on the recommendations of the other Advanced Users.
Documentors
This role allows to edit Wikimapia Docs (The new Wiki). It is given by Wikimapia Team members.
Forum
The forum is Wikimapia's discussion area, where you can read other users' questions and answers on a variety of topics, ask your own questions and join in the discussions. The people who frequent the forum are other users just like you, although the admins do occasionally contribute as well.
Collaborations
Collaborations are projects created by the Wikimapia community to do such activities, an example is adding polygons to places without polygons. Any registered user 1+ level can create a collaboration, the collaboration has to be approved by the Wikimapia team before it goes into affect. The creator of the collaboration can remove users or finish the collaboration at any time. Only approved collaborations get their own forum topic in the Collaborations section of the forum to discuss about collaborations.
