# Artifacts

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/artifacts/507>\
**Category:** The CredSperiment\
**Tags:** 📦artifact\
**Created:** [December 28, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/artifacts/507 "2019-12-28T05:23:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![burrrata](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/burrrata/32/135_2.png) [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/artifacts/507/1 "2019-12-28T05:23:11Z")

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# Description

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An Artifact for Artifacts. So meta!

The Artifacts Artifact allows us to easily give credit to all the contributions that make Artifacts possible.

  

# Contributions

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> [@Initiatives](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives/508):
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> Description Initiatives provide a framework to plan, execute, and attribute Cred to work that adds value to SourceCred. Initiatives make it easy for the community to keep all the information on a project in one place. Then via the Champions, References. and Contributions categories it’s easy to flow Cred to the appropriate nodes. Contributions [https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives-template-discussion/445](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives-template-discussion/445)[https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives-template/455](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives-template/455)[https://discourse…](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/write-the-initiatives-plugin/269)

> [@Artifacts Template](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/artifacts-template/452/2):
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> I think we can skip the “Artifact ##” prefixes, similar to Initiatives. Name: Can use the title for this. Description: Add a bit of context here. Benefits: Would be what you meant with the purpose part. This is what we use for initiatives. References: Also similar to initiatives.

  

# References

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[https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/about-the-artifacts-category/253](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/about-the-artifacts-category/253)

> [@Supernodes: Moving past raw activity](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/supernodes-moving-past-raw-activity/340):
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> So far, SourceCred has tracked contributions at the level of raw activity. Here are some examples of activities we track: GitHub pull requests GitHub comments GitHub Reactions Discourse posts Discourse likes The activity data has been a great starting point. Activity data is easy to collect automatically, so we can get a reasonable baseline for cred scores. However, using activity data alone has serious issues. Valuing any individual piece of activity can be quite hard, and the activity data…