Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5056929-20130104120051/@comment-212.122.119.113-20130110140712

Spike144 wrote: The people who want to keep the badge system say that badges can attract more users to the wiki, but other question is what people the badges attract.

People should come to the wiki and make contributions there, because they want to help the wiki and make it a better place for people who want to find some information there. Wikis are mainly an encyclopedia about a specific topic, not a game where people earn some points to get a higher position in the table or leaderboard.

When the wiki has some sort of table of users, it is mostly a list of people who are able to help to other users that are new on the wiki. Sadly our Special:Leaderboard is not that kind of table. It doesn't look good for the wiki, when the first position in the table is ocupied by person, whose editing skills (after several months on the wiki) are equal to users who have been contributing just for several weeks. I really don't want to attract more people to the wiki who think that they should get some special rights here just because they occupy a high position in some table. The leaderboard is supposed to be to show who are the best contributors in the wiki, but:

Why is someone who made 5 contributions, 1 per day, a better contributor than someone who did all of them in 1 day?

Why is someone who created a blog post a better contributor than someone who didn't?

Why is someone who edited his userpage a better contributor than someone who didn't?

Why is someone who sent a message to someone else a better contributor than an anti-social person who doesn't talk to anyone?

Why is someone who made 100 contributions in 1 day a better contributor than someone who made 50 each day?

Why is someone who added pages to categories a better contributor than someoone who didn't? Once all the pages are in their appropriate categories, there's no way to get those badges unless you add pages to inappropriate categories or do like in Flipline Studios Wiki

Why is someone who added images, even if it was in a blog post/userpage, a better contributor than someone who didn't? Most images are just fun facts about the games.