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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A higher level Strunk & White badge? 1000 edits or such
I recently picked up a Strunk & White badge, which I am damn pleased with. It is a somewhat exclusive club with 354 badges thus far bestowed.
It was earned mostly by cleaning up horribly ...
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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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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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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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Research Assistant - update to "Edited 50 different tag wikis bodies"?
Research Assistant badge is defined as:
Research Assistant
silver; awarded once
Edit 50 different tag wiki bodies
Tag wiki excerpt edits do not count
You can edit an existing tag wiki or create a ...
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Do you get points for editing somebody else's post? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do suggested edits work?
Do you get points for editing somebody else's post? I see a few users who constantly go around just editing others posts. Are they doing this ...
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Organizer badge not awarded after a retag
Yesterday, I added one tag to this question, but I didn't get the Organizer badge.
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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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What kind of edits contribute to the editor badges?
The descriptions for the editing badges are:
Editor: First edit
Strunk & White: Edited 80 posts
Copy Editor: Edited 500 posts
Does "posts" include your own questions/answers, or are these ...
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Make it clearer that “Strunk & White” doesn't account for edits on own posts, as it's done in “Copy Editor”'s description
In this picture, you can see the description of the badge "Strunk & White" and the badge "Copy Editor".
One description specifies that you don't get points if you edit your own posts. But for the ...
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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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How to earn the Tag Editor badge? [duplicate]
I do not understand how you can earn the Tag Editor badge. What do you have to do and where?
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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 ...
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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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Don't show Cleanup badge until you can earn it
I read this: Meaning of Cleanup badge (First rollback )
and this: What is a 'rollback'?
If this badge is only available for users with 2000 rep and above, why do I see it? It should be ...
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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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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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How to find inactive posts on Stack Overflow to earn the Archaeologist badge
How can I find posts which have been inactive for 6 months, as per the requirement for the Archaeologist badge? Is there some kind of search query or something?
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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 ...
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Copy Editor badge is not included to my account even after I have edited 500 posts [duplicate]
I have a problem regarding the Copy Editor badge. I have edited more than 500 posts in total. Still, I cannot receive Copy Editor badge in my account. And also, Copy Editor badge track (progress bar) ...
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Research Assistant - user list shows "No longer available" on mobile site
The list of users with the Research Assistant badge looks 'wrong' in the mobile view.
Related question: "No longer available" on the list of users with "Research Assistant" badge
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Why don't tag excerpt edits count towards the Research Assistant badge?
The description shown for the Research Assistant is
Edited 50 tag wikis.
According to the List of all badges with full descriptions, this does not include edits to tag wiki excerpts. It's been ...
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Why did I get the Copy Editor badge one edit early?
My profile displays 499 posts edited, but still the newest badge is Copy Editor, which requires 500 edits.
How is this possible?
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Is iterative refinement of the same wiki tag/excerpt with more than just minor fixes OK?
I admire the way tags are used/implemented on Stack Exchange. They seem like a variation, or illustration, of:
"You only get one chance to make a first impression".
"How would you describe your ...
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How do I estimate Strunk & White progress?
Self-edits and retags don't count toward S&W. The former are easy to filter, but what about the latter?
#! /usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
sub num_last_editor {
my($id) = @_;
open ...
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Reopener (Edit) Badge Idea
When a Question gets closed and someone edits them to get them reopened, that should count towards a (bronze/silver/gold) badge.
I'm unsure if the OP of a question should count here as well, ...
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Excavator badge incorrectly claims to be associated with an "orphan wiki" post
I recieved the Excavator Badge on Gaming.SE for an edit I made to the starcraft-2 tag wiki. However, the badge page instead lists it as being on an "orphan wiki" post:
This is a bug, although I'm not ...
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Where did my Excavator badge go?
Couple of hours ago, I was awarded the Excavator badge on Meta:
Now, looking at my profile, the badge is no longer there. Heck, even the badges page says no one has been awarded. Was it revoked?
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Do multiple edits on the same post count?
Do multiple edits on the same post count towards the editor badges?
Related : What kind of edits contribute to the editor badges? , but doesn't talk about multiple edits on the same post.
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Should I have gotten the Tag Editor badge?
I saw this post which suggests that some fix was applied to the Tag Editor badge recently.
However, I did suggest an edit for the Newsletter tag that got accepted on July 21st, should I have gotten ...
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Strunk & White badge and data explorer question
I've been fiddling with data-explorer recently, and I was curious to see how many edits I still need to earn the Strunk & White badge.
So I ran how many edits I made and how much more until I earn ...
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Is it possible to know the count of edits I made on Stack Overflow?
Is it possible to know the number of edits I made on Stack Overflow?
For example, is there a way to know our status towards reaching the copy editor badge?
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Strunk-and-White problem?
Thanks to the new edit system(which I really like, BTW) I recently got Strunk-and-White. Awesome! I'm a curious guy, so I had been periodically seeing how many edits I had with some data explorer ...
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User received Strunk and White a month after his last edit
I just noticed that Diago was awarded a Strunk and White badge one month after his last edit.
What happened? Did the requirements for the badge loosen? Did it just take a month to award it? Or is ...
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Does editing your own posts increase your edit count?
My question is pretty straightforward... Does editing your own posts increase your edited posts count? I don't think so, but I couldn't find an answer anywhere.
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What happened to my Copy Editor badge?
A few days ago I had the gold Copy Editor badge on Stack Overflow for 500 edits. Today I don't. I checked the Data Explorer and according to that I have only made 100 edits. I didn't think badges ...
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New badge for users who explain their edits (fill "Edit Summary")
@Nikita Rybak had a great idea, he
posted it as answer.
As you know when you edit a question you are offered to fill in an Edit summary.
This is a brief description of what you've just done with ...
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Somehow I don't get badges
I just checked with this query how many edits I made. It is 746, so I think I should get the new CopyEditor badge.
Likewise the tag wiki page for jQuery says I have over 400 up-votes for this tag (...
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Rollbacks and Strunk & White
Do rollbacks count as edits towards the Strunk & White badge?
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Why don't answer edits count toward editing badges?
There are several queries on the data explorer site that show your progress toward the various editing badges like Editor, Strunk & White, and Copy Editor. Based on most of these queries and my ...
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How I check the exact composition of the edits that I made
I did about 500 plus edits on stackoverflow, but I didn't know that how many my edits are of tag, title, of grammar, of formatting and how many edit I made on old post? and how many edit I made on new ...
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Tag wiki edits aren't contributing to Research Assistant badge
Recently, I have done a lot of tag wiki editing. Most of these edits have been accepted. However, only one has contributed to my Research Assistant badge progress!
Extra info which might be ...
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Badge System & Editing
I recently have gone over the required editing of 80 posts to get the badge "Strunk & White".
However, as of this time I haven't been awarded the badge. Is there a additional requirements for ...
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Rolling back not really rolling back?
I've just edited my post and I saw this in the corner:
I did not receive the rollback badge for this.
But how can it display me it will be a rollback, but it won't count for a rollback?
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Strunk & White/Copy Editor Calculation Bug
I have over 216 edits on Stack Overflow. I understand the edits to my own questions and answers do not count, however my count should be way above the 67 or so that I have credit for.
I've read most ...
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Badge for editing a negative vote post that goes on to be a positive scoring post
I've noticed potentially good questions that are poorly worded or have bad titles and thus have at least a couple of downvotes or even close votes. On occasion, after a quick edit, these questions go ...
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Automatically detect edit abuse and exclude from badges/flag for mod review
Flem has 5 pages of 1 character edits (including an edit to one of my posts), apparently in a massive attempt to earn the Copy Editor badge.
Should Copy Editor, etc., ignore 1 character whitespace-...
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