User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Announcing Achievements - Edit your way to the top/@comment-88790-20100806131847

I agree with many others with regards to this encouraging pointless edits.

I'm also concerned that these would be used to by editors to claim they should be admins by gaining a certain amount of points.

I think the leaderboard is a mistake, I thought the idea of a wiki is the be a community, working towards making your wiki a bigger, better encyclopaedia etc, but leaderboards and this sort of thing brings in a level of competitiveness that I find to be somewhat in opposition to the community idea.