Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5785681-20200821183619/@comment-9605025-20200822172912

An edit either counts or it doesn't. If it does, it counts as 1 edit; no more and no less.

There are different tracks of badges. Some of them are based on making edits to pages that belong to a certain category. So, obviously, if the page you edit doesn't belong to that category, then your edit counter for that badge won't go up. It may be relevant to note that Achievements does not take subcategories into account. For example, say we have the page Gecko and it belongs to the category Lizards. Say that category Lizards itself belongs to the category Animals and that there is an edit track for category Animals. If I edit page Gecko, I will not get credit towards the edit track for category Animals.

Now consider just the generic editing badges. In this case, the category of the page is not a factor. However, pages in the MediaWiki namespace don't count.