Thread:Sonnet73/@comment-25668910-20171108084428/@comment-27645494-20171109131654

Unfortunately, manually awarding users with "userbars" would require a lot of work in terms of monitoring edits and making judgment calls about what kinds of edits qualify.

I was aware of the option for setting up a customized achievement track, but it's different from what you'd originally asked. It's also not a good fit for this purpose for several reasons:
 * The PriorityEdit category involves making large changes. However, these badges credit large and small edits equally, so this incentivizes people to make tiny edits (like capitalization changes) instead of the kind that is actually needed for pages in this category.
 * There simply are not enough edits to be made in that category to get most of the silver or gold badges (which require up to 500 edits), unless people make tiny edits, which are undesirable.
 * This would be unfair to users who have already made amazing contributions to pages in that category.

In the future, please refrain from contacting the Fandom dev team without consulting an admin first, especially about information that is publically available/searchable.

In terms of what you said about needing more people, the solutions you propose target existing users, who are already aware of the need to edit pages in that category, so those solutions won't be particularly impactful. It sounds like it's more a matter of spreading the word about wiki editing in general and recruiting new wiki editors.