Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-4476879-20120910235217/@comment-188432-20120918172323

Yeah but the problem with the "category cheat" is that it's actually pretty hard to see. I mean, I dunno about you, but I don't really spend that much time as an admin policing Achievements. Yes, we've got poiicies in place that give me the power to block people for gaming the system, but if someone added 500 cats to a page, then immediately undid them, I probably wouldn't catch it — especially if they added it to a relatively obscure page.

The worst thing about the category achievements, though, is that they encourage people to make new and frivolous categories. I can't tell you how much work my bot has gotten out of cleaning up after people who sincerely thought they were adding a useful category in the pursuit of the badge.

The category achievement should be just like the pounce badge: one point for every page to which you add a category. It shouldn't be one point for every category. In fact, the default language on MediaWiki:Achievements-badge-desc-category suggests that the category badge is supposed to work this way. In fact though, the wording is the precise opposite of what the badge actually does, which is why I've had to alter the wording at tardis:MediaWiki:Achievements-badge-desc-category.

Since I'm talkin' about variations to standard messages, you may find it helpful to change your wiki's text on the Pounce! badge from MediaWiki:Achievements-badge-hover-desc-pounce to tardis:MediaWiki:Achievements-badge-hover-desc-pounce.