User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Announcing Achievements - Edit your way to the top/@comment-52915-20100805220406

Wikis on Wikia have been about communities working together to make a useful website. People should make edits for the sake of improving the site, not outranking or getting higher scores than other users. The latter of which is exactly what this feature encourages. As everyone else is pointing out it's also discouraging meaningful edits as people try to boost the quantity of their edits.

If people should be rewarded for their contributions can't wikis be encouraged to set up a featured article system or something similar that rewards quality?