Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-477304-20150706160313/@comment-1669199-20150707202438

I have one suggestion to encourage more Users to edit. Two words: Achievement Badges. For those of us who've owned an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3, which contained things called "achievements" and "trophies" respectively, a number of games belonging to these systems gave players a mostly-optional set of challenges they could partake in in order to earn themselves a little bragging rights reward in the form of achievements/trophies, and often times some of these challenges are more difficult to complete than others, so when we do complete them we often can't help but feel a sense of accomplishment that our hard work has finally paid off. Why not do something similar for our Wiki by having the Achievement Badges feature implemented (I'm assuming its still around) and give each other an excuse to turn increasing overall productivity around the Wiki into friendly competitions? Competition is good for business markets, for example, because it inspires business to try harder to outdo their competition and deliver better-quality products (assuming you're a business that actually has a lick of common sense and cares about making your consumers happy, thereby bringing more of them in your general direction), giving the consumers a wider range of better options to choose from. The Achievement Badges could be used to create a similar outcome with our mainspace content when we're actively trying to earn badges for ourselves (for those who're interested in doing so, anyway), and in the end everybody, including our readers, win because our little games make the Users feel more accomplished with their efforts around the Wiki and the readers will have better content to read from.

I see no harm in giving this a shot.