Board Thread:New Features/@comment-4151266-20150615172420/@comment-4189499-20150622034622

I don't mind the leaderboard as it can lead to some friendly competition which in turn motivates people to edit more.

What I would really like is some achievements with some more subtlety to them. For example, there should be an edit track for people making only minor edits, which means a difference of less than, say, 50 characters, to encourage people to do things such as spelling and layout correction, and another edit track for edits where over 500 or maybe over 1000 characters have been changed, indicating a lot of extra content has been added. These could even be specified as character changes within an hour (the amount changed in the diff from the first time that user edited that page in the past hour to their last edit) to make sure people don't abuse the system by, for example, only correcting one spelling mistake at a time, and also to reward people who edit a page several times within the hour to add more content, each edit below the large change boundary but the edits accumulatively being above it.

I would also like it if admins could add tracks for different types of actions. Our wiki would really benefit from a track which rewarded users for moving pages, as being an answers wiki bad capitalisation, spelling, and phrasing can be a big problem in page titles. It would also be nice to reward people for adding redirects, which would similarly help with reducing duplicate pages on our wiki. Obviously things like this wouldn't work on every wiki, which is why there should be a list of actions such as those that can be made into edit tracks, but will only be activated on admin request. Tracks aimed at other namespaces would also be good, with rewards going to people helping with categories or improving templates. Basically, I would like a larger variety of tracks to be able to be turned on.