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[Bruno Girin <brunogirin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/04/12 20:52, Bruno Girin wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> I think this would be a great idea! The only thing I would be careful
> of is that if the accomplishment is based on the number of posts, some
> people may be tempted to file in dummy posts just to get their numbers
> up so it may be useful to find a more reliable metric.
>
> Otherwise, just easy to gain accomplishments may be useful to, such as:
> - first post on the forums (same with Ask Ubuntu)
> - first answer to post on the forums (same with Ask Ubuntu)
> - reputation and badges on Ask Ubuntu
> - best answers on Ask Ubuntu
>
> The details on how to create new accomplishments is here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments/Creating
>
> One additional point: most of the accomplishments today use data that
> is available in Launchpad because Launchpad offers an API to connect
> to it. I have no idea what the API would be for the forums or for Ask
> Ubuntu so finding how you can connect to those two would be the first
> step. Once you know how to do that, we can help you work out how to
> create new accomplishments.

Actually, I managed to answer my own questions. The details of the
stackexchange API (on which Ask Ubuntu runs) are here:
https://api.stackexchange.com/

It looks like it uses an app key so it would probably be useful to get
one for Ubuntu accomplishments.

The forums run on vBulletin for which there is also an API:
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/content.php/367-API-Overview

Bruno