Karma

Open Karma

Link your Karma account and receive recognition for meaningful, verified contributions to OpenHeritage.

What is Karma?

Karma is an external, cumulative recognition score for work that helps preserve and describe cultural and family heritage. It reflects accepted contribution impact rather than clicks, API calls, or raw activity.

Karma is separate from OpenHeritage points, account balance, reputation, and leaderboards. A contribution can be evaluated independently by each system.


How it works

Only accepted and verifiable contributions qualify. Rejected, duplicate, self-approved, imported, or automated activity is excluded.

Contribution types are weighted by expected effort and impact so different kinds of work are compared more fairly.

There are no daily, category, account, or lifetime caps. Every distinct eligible contribution receives its full weight.

After linking, accepted historical contributions are calculated too. Updates are synchronized securely in the background, so totals may take a little time to appear.


Current OpenHeritage impact policy

Contribution OpenHeritage impact units
Accepted memorial upload 10
Accepted transcription 5
Accepted correction review 3
Accepted source document 2
Approved historical photo 1
Accepted review approval 1
Approved source 1
These are OpenHeritage impact units, not final Karma points. OpenHeritage uses them to align different contribution types before sending a cumulative total. Karma then applies its configured service coefficient and rounding. For example, with a 0.01 coefficient, 100 impact units become 1 Karma point. Therefore, the Karma balance can differ from the impact-unit totals shown here.

Join OpenHeritage and earn Karma

Create an OpenHeritage account or sign in to link your Karma account and receive recognition for your accepted contributions, including eligible historical work.

Contact us Terms of Service • © 2026 OpenHeritage • 🇺🇦 Proudly made in Ukraine • v2.10.6
An unhandled error has occurred. Reload 🗙