Board Thread:Smashpedia Business/@comment-4687866-20131026202817/@comment-7697305-20131028190635

I definitely agree that achievements can provide small, useful benefits to users on a wiki and wikis on the whole. However, I'm not so sure that they would necessarily cause users to stick around in order to help the wiki so much as they would cause a large number of users to attempt to "farm" badges.

For instance, on another wiki which has had achievements enabled since they were enabled (two years, I think?), we still have users coming on for the sole purpose of spamming nonexistent categories on pages or creating [http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Cybergeek11235/I_think_I_get_a_badge_for_typing_this. low-content blogs] for badges. Users like this seriously outnumber those for whom achievements were a significant (or even moderate-to-minor) part of their joining, sticking with, and becoming a significant contributor on that wiki (if such users even exist there). It seems like the demographics for the game that wiki is based on are similar to those of this series (although I could be wrong), so I imagine we'd run into similar problems here.