User:Fradeshan/Sandbox

Service awards are a simple way of acknowledging an editor's level of contribution based on two specific benchmarks: the number of contributions the editor made to Everybody Edits Wiki and the length of time they have been registered. Unlike other awards given from one editor to another in a show of appreciation, this is one award that is intended to be given to yourself, although it can also be given by a second party. It is achieved by a strictly mechanical count of time registered and number of edits. Both requirements must be met to be eligible for each award level. There is no process for receiving these awards; you just determine the grade to which you are entitled, then display it on your user page.

Please remember that neither the number of edits, nor the length of time from when an account was created are, in and of themselves, good indicators of the quality of an editor's contributions or diplomatic ability. Hence, service awards do not indicate any level of authority whatsoever; "master" editors are not bestowed with more authority, through this award, than "novice" editors.

Levels

There are currently 19 award levels and one base level. The "Benjaminsen" track is a humorous alternative for those who find the more formal titles too... formal.

For the first five levels, there are also incremental service awards. Unlike the Standard Unofficial Service Awards these awards allow users to have awards in-between the major service awards. There are 20 incremental service awards, with four levels of incremental service award for each of the first five service awards.

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For the sake of variety, three badge variants are provided for each level: a medal, a block, and a ribbon (thanks to Wikipedia:Ribbons). To keep the validity and status of the major service awards, a ribbon is the only variant for incremental service awards. Editors may display the badge of their preference, a combination of badges, or none at all.

To learn your edit count and the date of your first logged edit, you can click Preferences, where this information will appear.

The following table lists the two requirements to be eligible for an award level.

Requirements for service awards
(Both requirements must be met for an award level)

°	Award	Edits	Period
1	Registered Editor (or Guest-1)	1	1 day
2	Novice Editor (or Burba)	200	1 month
3	Apprentice Editor (or Novato)	1,000	3 months
4	Journeyman Editor (or Grognard)	2,000	6 months
5	Yeoman Editor (or Grognard Extraordinaire)	4,000	1 year
6	Experienced Editor (or Grognard Mirabilaire)	6,000	1.5 years
7	Veteran Editor (or Tutnum)	8,000	2 years
8	Veteran Editor II (or Grand Tutnum)	12,000	2.5 years
9	Veteran Editor III (or Most Perfect Tutnum)	16,000	3 years
10	Veteran Editor IV (or Tutnum of the Encyclopedia)	20,000	3.5 years
11	Senior Editor (or Labutnum)	24,000	4 years
12	Senior Editor II (or Most Pluperfect Labutnum)	28,500	4.5 years
13	Senior Editor III (or Labutnum of the Encyclopedia)	33,000	5 years
14	Master Editor (or Illustrious Looshpah)	42,000	6 years
15	Master Editor II (or Auspicious Looshpah)	51,000	7 years
16	Master Editor III (or Most Plusquamperfect Looshpah Laureate)	60,000	8 years
17	Master Editor IV (or Looshpah Laureate of the Encyclopedia)	78,000	10 years
18	Grandmaster Editor (or Lord High Togneme Vicarus)	96,000	12 years
19	Grandmaster Editor First-Class (or Lord High Togneme Laureate)	114,000	14 years
20	Vanguard Editor (or Benjaminsen)	132,000	16 years

Exposition on the requirements

What is counted?

How to count your edits is up to you. It is generally assumed that all edits, even including edits by bots and deleted edits, are okay to count. If you want to count edits on other Wikimedia projects, that's okay too. If you began as an anonymous IP editor and want to count from the time of your first IP edit, that's also okay. If you run or ran more than one account, you may choose to include the edits for your other user accounts as well. If you are or were an administrator, you can count your administrative actions as edits if you want. You may also begin counting the amount of time you have been an editor for from an older account or IP address of yours. It's all based on the honor system, so do what you think gives you the most fair and accurate award level.

To clarify, though, both the edit count and the time for a given level are required to achieve that level.

Rationale for the requirements

The edit count requirements for the levels are based on what, in the opinion of the editors who formulated the requirements, could be achieved by a human editor working with considerable regularity and diligence using the default tools and a fairly typical editing pattern. The awards for the first two years require a considerably lower edit rate than those for the later years.

Bots and editors using certain tools or editing patterns may achieve higher rates, while editors using certain editing patterns (such as mainly posting completed articles with a single edit and so forth) may have lower rates, and of course editors who don't edit regularly may have lower rates.

Thus not all editors will see a good match between service time and edit counts (some editors may be eligible for a high level by service time but not by edit count, while other editors may be eligible for a high level by edit count but not by service time). This is an imperfection which is an inherent consequence of the decision to use an uncomplicated system for determining eligibility for each award.

• The first seven levels (up to Veteran Editor or Tutnum), which cover the first two years of one's editing career, would require a rate of 4,000 edits per year if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization (except that the very first level, Novice Editor or Burba, requires only 200 edits rather than 333).
• Levels 8 through 11 (up to Senior Editor or Labutnum), which cover the next two years of one's editing career, would require a rate of 8,000 edits per year if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization.
• Levels 12 and up would require a rate of 9,000 edits per year (an average of about 25 edits per day) if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization.

Images and userboxes

You can pick an award template from the following table: