Wikipedia:Incremental service awards (Ribbons)
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Awards for contributions to Wikipedia
This page in a nutshell: Some editors choose to acknowledge their service to Wikipedia by displaying a service award, which denotes time served and number of edits made. These awards are unofficial – displaying the wrong one carries no penalty (except possible disapproval from other editors), and displaying the right one does not indicate authority or competence (except possible respect from other editors).
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Incremental 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 Wikipedia and the length of time they have been registered. Academic interlocutors have described Wikipedia's service award schema as a way to award the self. The incremental service awards extend that tenet.
Unlike the Standard Unofficial Service Awards these awards are used to allow the users to have awards in-between the Major service awards.
Please remember that time spent with and number of edits to Wikipedia are not indicative of the quality of an editor's contributions, or of their diplomatic ability. Service awards also do not indicate any level of authority; "veteran" editors have no more authority than "novice" editors.
Levels
[edit ]Currently there are 20 incremental service awards, four levels each for the first five service awards. Consensus is that the current scheme of incremental awards for the earlier levels is sufficient, and therefore incremental service awards for higher levels are not available.[a]
To keep the validity and status of the major service awards, medals and books are not available for incremental service awards.
List of requirements for incremental service awards
[edit ]| Award | Level | Number of levels | Edits | Incremental number of edits | Period | Incremental length of period | |
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| 1 | Registered Editor (or Signator) | Level 2 | 4 | 50 | 50 edits | 8 days | 7 days |
| Level 3 | 100 | 15 days | |||||
| Level 4 | 150 | 23 days | |||||
| 2 | Novice Editor (or Burba) | Level 2 | 400 | 200 edits | 1 month 15 days | 15 days | |
| Level 3 | 600 | 2 months | |||||
| Level 4 | 800 | 2 months 15 days | |||||
| 3 | Apprentice Editor (or Novato) | Level 2 | 1,250 | 250 edits | 3 months 23 days | 23 days | |
| Level 3 | 1,500 | 4 months 15 days | |||||
| Level 4 | 1,750 | 5 months 8 days | |||||
| 4 | Journeyman Editor (or Grognard) | Level 2 | 2,500 | 500 edits | 7 months 15 days | 1 month 15 days | |
| Level 3 | 3,000 | 9 months | |||||
| Level 4 | 3,500 | 10 months 15 days | |||||
| 5 | Yeoman Editor (or Grognard Extraordinaire) | Level 2 | 4,500 | 13 months 15 days | |||
| Level 3 | 5,000 | 15 months | |||||
| Level 4 | 5,500 | 16 months 15 days | |||||
Ribbons
[edit ]| Level | Ribbons | Small ribbons | Requirements |
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Registered Editor (or Signator)[edit ] | |||
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Novice Editor (or Burba)[edit ] | |||
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Apprentice Editor (or Novato)[edit ] | |||
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Journeyman Editor (or Grognard)[edit ] | |||
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Yeoman Editor (or Grognard Extraordinaire)[edit ] | |||
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Notes
[edit ]- ^ See Wikipedia talk:Service awards/Archive 7#Re-adding the other incremental service awards and making them official. The images for further incremental service awards still exist although the templates have been deleted — check this page history for their use.
