Thread:Peteparker/@comment-1713281-20130530143447

You may have noticed that anytime we add new badges to the site for the users, we get a lot of responses asking us to make badges that reward users for adding in key info; adding a synopsis to a comic that is missing one, adding histories to character pages that are just an infobox, adding pictures to articles that are missing them. Things of that nature.

As you likely know, Wikia's badge interface only allows us to make badges by adding edit tracks to categories on the site, which makes it hard to reward contributions like the above.

Now, as a work around, I tried adding an edit track to the Character History Needed category. After some experimentation, I've learned that the site recognizes edits to the category, even when it is automatically removed by the addition of a history (in other words, the automatic removal feature does not negatively affect the edit count). I assume that the same would hold true for the Synopsis Needed category, which I had also hoped to add badges for.

The problem I'm running in to is that the edit count increases even if the edit made to the page is not what we intend; if I go to a page that doesn't have a character history, but add a trivia piece instead of a character history, the edit count goes up. I really like the idea of adding in these types of badges, but I'm not convinced that they will be earned the way we intended.

So I'd like your opinion on the subject. Does the good outweigh the bad on this one? Or should they be shelved until a better option presents itself? 