Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200813184033/@comment-24155515-20200817132202

Vandraedha wrote: Jrooksjr wrote: Wiki Admins can add specific categories to the achievement system to encourage edits to pages into those categories.

P.S. There is an achievement for making x number of edits in a short amount of time - I think was called 'Caffinated' or something like that. There are actually 2 of them, they're part of the "Secret Achievements" track. There's Pounce!, awarded for making edits on 100 pages within an hour of the page's creation. and Caffeinated!, awarded for making 100 edits on pages in a single day. There's also, Lucky Edit!, awarded for making the Lucky 1,000th edit on the wiki. Overall, I find achievements more likely to induce spam than legitimate edits. They're also very unreliable as a gauge of editor capability/activity. I'm hoping that there are some improvements coming to the Achievements system to be able to account for this.

I know of exactly one wiki that makes reasonable-to-good use of Achievements. (This is largely because most editors who are really sustainably interested in earning points there have come from the website the wiki is attached to, and that website has its own achievement system for things like editing its wiki that only rewards good and helpful editing, not the kind that would be badge collecting.)

Conversely, I had to contact staff to disable them on the wiki I admin because people were clearly editing just to get them. Minute they were turned off, those editors completely disappeared. They were WP:NOTHERE and all that.