For people that raid in WoW, wowprogress is a site widely used to check what bosses guilds have downed and how quickly they did it - this competitive nature of the game I believe is why most of the people even consider raiding over 3 days a week...
Do you think SWTOR should go down this route, or should it all just be for your own servers recognition (i.e "/chat oh, <guild name> killed <end boss> for the first time yesterday"). Do people even care about world firsts anymore? I enjoy the competitive feel that PvE can bring, mainly for the server I'm on though, but I do think with WoW it went too far. I think I will get a better answer here, than on the swtor forums.
I believe Rift had a wowprogress clone at some point too but I think it died off?