Editing World Community Grid (section)

==Statistics and competition==
The contributions of each user are recorded and user contribution statistics are publicly available.<ref name="Global Statistics"/> Due to the fact that the processing time of each workunit varies from computer to computer, depending on the difficulty of the workunit, the speed of the computer, and the amount of idle resources available, contributions are usually measured in terms of ''points''. Points are awarded for each workunit depending on the effort required to process it.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=points#27
|title=Points: What are points?
|work=Help
|publisher=World Community Grid
|access-date=2007-07-28
|archive-date=2007-08-10
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810070758/http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=points#27
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

Upon completing a workunit, the [[BOINC]] client will request the number of points it thinks it deserves based on software [[Benchmark (computing)|benchmark]]s (''see [[BOINC Credit System#Cobblestones]]''). Since multiple computers process the same workunit to ensure accuracy, the World Community Grid servers can look at the points claimed by each of those computers. The WCG servers disregard statistical outliers, average the remaining values and award the resulting number of points to each computer.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=points#177
|title=Points: How are points calculated for the BOINC agent?
|work=Help
|publisher=World Community Grid
|access-date=2007-08-05
|archive-date=2007-08-10
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810070758/http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=points#177
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=9545
|title=BOINC Points
|author=knreed
|publisher=World Community Grid
|date=2006-11-02
|access-date=2007-07-28
|archive-date=2015-11-07
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107061230/http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=9545
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

Within the grid, users may join teams that have been created by organizations, groups, or individuals. Teams allow for a heightened sense of community identity and can also inspire competition. As teams compete against each other, more work is done for the grid overall.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=teams
|title=Teams
|work=Help
|publisher=World Community Grid
|access-date=2007-07-28
|archive-date=2007-07-17
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717154301/http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=teams
|url-status=live
}}</ref>