Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-477304-20150706160313/@comment-5215338-20150708185410

Mystic Monkey wrote: As long a sMonoBook users can have easy access to see their achievement progress and badges I'm up for it. I don't know how that feature works in Monobook, or even if it works in Monobook. Destiny of Awe wrote: As someone who hails from multiple Wikis that utilize badges, I'm completely against the idea of using them here. While they might stimulate edits, they always cause users to "badge hunt," the act of making tons of nonsensical and/or unnecessary edits just to achieve badges. My say in this may pale in comparison to the opinions of established admins, but I have first hand experience experience as a mod of this event occuring frequently. This is my main concern. I think competitiveness won't be a huge issue upon implementation, or at least we don't know if it will. But badge hunting will definitely happen if we start using them. I say this as someone who used to make as many small edits as possible in order to increase his editcount as quickly as possible. Admins will have to start keeping an eye on wiki activity again (the way we used to have rollbacks on the lookout for anonymous contributors) in order to issue warnings and maybe even blocks to edit spammers, and even then the definition of edit spamming will be subjective.

However, this isn't a deal breaker for me. I believe that the implementation has the potential to motivate editors, and that the possible problems have the potential to motivate administrators, who can keep edit spamming to a minimum. A test period of couple of weeks (followed by a vote) would be a good step toward increasing productivity, provided that it isn't the only step we take.