User blog comment:Dopp/Giving User Profiles Some Love/@comment-13301-20110707092038

In fact there's a third version of user profiles, namely WikiDex monobook user profile, (see an example userpage) which presents at the top of the page the avatar, links to related pages, user groups, date when the user did the first edit and an edit count, with a progress bar indicator of how many useful edits has done (accounting for namespaces like main, category, image and template), a good replacement of the Achievement system.

This progress bar penalizes users that are only editing on userpages or talk pages, a good encourage for people to invert more time editing mainspce articles than their user page, what makes a wiki a success. While in the achievements system editors are equally rewarded by editing their userpages or mainspace articles.