User blog comment:3primetime3/Disabling Achievements???/@comment-24142930-20141017010937

I think badges should be kept, but remove badges that rely on luck to achieve (mainly the badge for every 1000 edits). Badges and the leaderboard will always be controversial though, as people have different methods how they edit. Some like to spend time and look through a whole page and make all changes in one edit, where as some may notice one particular problem and spend 10 seconds editing that one thing only. Someone who makes quick minor edits can go through ten articles by the time another user has fully examined a page properly.

At the end of the day though, 99% of edits made are genuinely to improve this wiki. That's the important thing. We should encourage users to edit, particularly now only registered users can edit.