User blog comment:Drew1200/Editing on the New Wiki/@comment-5625448-20130417122838/@comment-4845243-20130417155531

How is it similar to the one on the MBs? This system is based mainly on rewarding mainspace edits.

"Badges were pretty hard to get, even if you spam edited."

Idk how much you've been editing over the months, but that is simply not true. It is very easy to spam for badges.

What makes you think the new wiki will be more spammy? The reason the new system is so superior is this:

The current system only encourages the editing of user pages, and mostly high ranked user pages. This has led to a grossly disproportionate quality of pages between the high rankers and the low rankers, topics, forums, music etc.

Now, the reward will be equal no matter what page you edit. The incentive, thus, will be the same for editing any page; and users won't feel the need to edit high ranked users to keep up on the leaderboard.

What I just touched on, the editing mainly of high ranked pages, is one of the biggest problems we've had with editing on this wiki. We don't have a bunch of spammers to worry about. Now, this problem will be fixed, and our pages can become more equal quality.