Questions tagged [edit-badges]
Badges awarded for editing posts and tag wikis. These are Editor, Tag Editor, Excavator, Organizer, Cleanup (bronze); Strunk & White, Research Assistant, Archaeologist (silver); and Copy Editor (gold).
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Proposal to award the gold Copy Editor badge multiple times [duplicate]
Nearly four years ago during major updates to how the review queues worked and following discussion on the matter, we decided to award the gold Steward badge multiple times for any given review queue ...
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"Go get it" button for editing badges should link to the 'Annotated Posts' page
If I'm tracking one of the edit badges and click on the progress bar, it offers me a link to 'go get it': Clicking on the button takes me to the Low-Quality Posts review queue. It's actually quite a ...
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What is the best (fast but contributive) way to get Strunk & White badge?
As far as know, less than 200 people have a Strunk & White badge here on Meta. Why there's so few people eligible for this? Feature-request, is editing 80 posts too hard? Can we reduce this to ...
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"Go get it" button on editing badges has been removed on all other sites; should it be removed on this site too?
On Meta Stack Exchange, when tracking any of the editing badges (Editor, Strunk & White, or Copy Editor), opening the progress dialog shows a button to "Go get it". Upon clicking, you're ...
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Excavator badge awarded for editing question after Community♦ had bumped it to the home page
I just received an Excavator badge for Why can't I access my FTP server with Windows Explorer?. However, I was just browsing the home page, not merely looking for old posts; this question appeared ...
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Incorrectly awarded Archaeologist badge on meta-site
Last week I received the Archaeologist badge on Sustainability Meta, but I don't think that's correct. I have 209 revisions in total, but the vast majority (144 revisions to be precise) are on 1 ...
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Posts edited counter (for Strunk & White badge) is sometimes off
This question is inspired by Edit counts toward Strunk & White badge do not always add up to 80, where I remembered that I wrote a Global Edit Summary, which is (on some sites) off by one or more ...
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Edit counts toward Strunk & White badge do not always add up to 80
There are a number of similar questions but they don't seem to capture the following: There is a list of criteria for edits that do / do not count towards the Strunk & White badge; however, when I ...
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Does the Copy Editor badge exclude tag-only edits or tag wiki edits? [duplicate]
The Copy Editor badge has the following description: Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits). (emphasis mine). This is unclear to me. Does "tag edits" refer to edits that only ...
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Improve Copy Editor badge description
The description of the Copy Editor badge currently says: Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits). The term 'tag edit' is a bit ambiguous; what is meant here are edits to ...
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Remove "Go get it" for Research Assistant
This request is a follow up to my question "Go get it" link is broken for Research Assistant and some other badges. I found out from Brain Nickel's answer that it is not a bug but intended ...
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What should we do with the Organizer badge?
Update: This question was asked due to the employee comment quoted below, but the employee was incorrect. The badge is in fact awarded for tag edits that also modify the body or title. As such, most ...
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Change description of Organizer badge to be more descriptive
This is not a duplicate of Please improve the description of the Organizer badge, as that asks to make it more clear that it doesn't apply to one's own questions; my request is totally different. Ever ...
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"Go get it" link is broken for Research Assistant and some other badges
In our profile's activity, we are shown our recent badge earned and shows next possible badge we can earn. We can also select which badge's progress to show. On some sites (I tested on Hinduism, ...
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Add “Go get it” button for “Archaeologist” badge
Currently the “Archaeologist” badge doesn’t contain a “Go get it” button: I suggest to add it with the link to the following search request: lastactive:..6m Because it actually reflects the full ...
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