Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5785681-20200821183619/@comment-409884-20200822173045

I changed the Astrics to number signs to be easier answer the questions by number

AtoneTheMage wrote: The 360 day edit badge is madness but my masochism drives me to the brink of insanity

I have some questions about badges
 * 1) Are "Articles" only the (main) namespace?
 * 2) Is the daily edit in YOUR timezone or the system's time?
 * 3) Do minor edits count as edits?
 * 4) Do bot-flagged accounts get edit badges?
 * 5) Is the photo badge for uploading images only? Or also for putting them on articles?
 * 6) Does categorizing pages count as an article edit?
 * 7) Does removing categories count towards the categorizing badge? Or deduct from it?
 * 1) Yes - edits only in the main name space counts unless the Admins of that wiki  add a category track that contains Templates, User pages, Help pages, etc. ...
 * 2) All edit counts are UTC time (Fandom time) as there are many different User time zones
 * 3) Minor edits do count unless they are what I call fluff edits, where you click on edit button and then click on save button. (There must be a change in the text somewhere in order for it to count)
 * No, Bots do not get badges - None, that I have ever seen anyhow.
 * 1) Photo badges is for adding images to articles, using the text|size|link=link format -- Templates that add photos do not add to this badge but you get an edit credit for adding the template itself to the article.
 * 2) If I remember correctly, no the category badges do not count towards the edit badge but do count towards the Category badge for adding categories to pages.
 * 3) Adding, Editing, Removing any type of content counts towards the Edit badge.  Removing images does not count toward the Photo badge and removing Categories does not count toward the Category badge.  Nothing, but maybe STAFF, will reduce any of your badge counts.

Luxartisan wrote: Ok, you've drawn me back because I'm speaking about the current legacy system. What do you mean when you say it matters which pages are edited? Can you be more specific? I know some edits count as "0," but do other types of edits on different pages calculate differently? I'm curious about that. Angelle 13:20, August 22, 2020 (UTC)

On wikis with Achievements there is a special page called Special:AchievementsCustomize. On that page there are the basic achievements, that can not be removed, you can rename them and change the image for them but that is all. Then you can add edit tracks, Categories, so that if any pages that are listed on those category pages are edited then you can get extra badge points, the same badges as normal wiki edits but repeated just for those specific pages. i.e. You will get a badge just for making 1 edit on the wiki under the normal wiki badges but you can also get the same badge again just for making 1 edit to any page that is in the category called characters if that category was added and turned on by the admins on the special page, this is supposed to encourage edits to pages within that category if they are lacking and then later can be turned off by admins and a new category track turned on to encourage edits to pages within that category, and so forth.

P.S. As mentioned above or in other threads - You do not get any badge points for any type of edit done until Achievements are turned on and then only from the exact time that they were turned on. Any edits made before they are turned on count as 0  points. Any edit made after a specific tract is turned off will count as 0 points on that tract. If a new track is turned on again any edit before it was turned on is 0 points.