User blog comment:Doc.Richtofen/Thoughts Of The Community/@comment-3130832-20100806144755

It's a bad idea to keep it. It encourages a lot of small edits and/or pages. A wiki is not to be built out of a lot of articles, but the quality of the articles. A wiki is a collaborative database that operates as an encyclopedia, and an encyclopedia is an informative database that focuses on one (or more) main subject. I feel that this will encourage bad edits (i.e. spamming categories, blanking pages and then reverting them, adding a bunch of images that are irrelevant to the page and then reverting it). However, I do see one point of this, to encourage more editors to register and create an account, but they will probably make a lot of spam edits for a badge just so they can show it off. The leaderboard is a mistake, as a wiki is a community, working together to make the wiki more user and reader-friendly. Leaderboards puts the idea to make users better than each other by putting a rank on them, and will lead to a lot of edit warring as well. Wikia wikis should work together on making their wiki a better place, but I see this as making users only work by themselves.