User blog comment:Kirkburn/Introducing the Community Page - a hub for community info/@comment-26198169-20160628165227/@comment-126761-20160628173626

The 'Top Contributors' section should be a much lighter touch than achievements - there's no awards and no long-term tracking. It resets every single week.

We don't want users chasing rankings just for the sake of rankings, but the list can be a gentle nudge to produce more editing (which is generally desirable). Certainly we want any resulting edits to be worthwhile things - lots of tiny edits can be annoying - and social pressure and the lack of awards should help with that.

Of course, if it does end up causing negative effects, please let us know - this feature is still in development.