Forum:Question about Badge Creation for Achievements

Greetings and Happy Easter. At most, if not of all, of the wikis that I go to have achievements and some of these wiki sites I am able to create badge(s) for the achievements. My question is this, when creating a badge settings, i.e. name of group first, and after that, I am unsure what to do because I haven't done this new part of wiki yet. What I am asking is in a nutshell, what is the process of creating a badge for any achievements enabled wiki? Secondly, does these badges pictures have options for pictures wise or do I have to upload them manually to the site? Thirdly, after making them available to use, is there a way to disable them? Fourthly, is there a way to make a special, one time, selectively given badges to an event or occation? Follow up question to the last question and that is if I, or other administrators or bureaucrats, feel someone or other users to receive the same badge for the same event or occation like the 1,000th edit on the wiki, 100 edits in an hour, or a lot of edits within a day badges that are already enabled time situation? I mean by an award for the week, month, month, etc. time frame is what I am asking by the last two questions. And lastly, am I allowed to disable any user created badges for any and or all user created badges (i.e. promotional idea type of badge give-a-way is what I am getting at like The Sims Wiki had for a brief time before disabling the achievements)

Thanks for the help. LoneThrasherWolf37 01:00, April 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Currently regular admins are only able to create 'category edit tracks' (creating achievements for edits to a single category). The 'category edit tracks' work the same way as the 'edit track' (Making 5 edits to articles, Making 25 edits to articles etc.)


 * To create a new edit track, all you need to do is write the name of the category you want the edit track to be for in the Create new track for category: box, then click Create this track and the track will be created automatically. Now all you need to do is customize the images and names (the default images and names are the same as the 'edit track' achievements). Also, once you create the new track, you can disable it at any time by un-ticking the box that says enabled next to the track's name.


 * Special achievements
 * Special achievements can only be created by the staff or the helpers. To request a special achievement to be created for your wiki, you can send a message to wikia (via Special:Contact) and ask them to make one for you. I don't know what info you'd need to include in the message, but try to be as specific as possible.


 * For the last two questions, I don't know what you mean exactly, but it's propably because I'm getting sleepy :)


 * Hope this helps. Cheers :) --Anon(Talk) 06:22, April 25, 2011 (UTC)