Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5724090-20130612214443/@comment-1330470-20130612233304

Hey! I'm trying for X-number-of-days badges myself, and I'm currently at 219/365 days for Wolfenstein Wiki's achievements.

The most reliable way to never reset the badge counter is to ensure that no more than 24 hours pass between each edit. This is ten times more reliable than to say "I edited yesterday, so I'll edit today and be fine" because the actual timer appears to reset at midnight UTC (which is most likely not midnight your time - see what time it is on Google). If I'm wrong on this, somebody correct me.

Checking your contributions, you went 26 hours without editing between June 10 and June 11. I'm afraid that that 26-hour period included one whole midnight-to-midnight day under UTC, which is probably why you lost your count.

Also remember that log-only actions (like page deletions, blocks, uploads) do not count as "contributions", and without edits on the side can make your count reset... I found this the hard way.