Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24573226-20171007211457/@comment-25936766-20171007220509

Why are "number of edits done in X period of time" important?

1) Doing a lot of edits doesn't mean one is a good candidate for mod/admin/crat. Nor is not making too many edits an indicator that someone wouldn't be a good mod/admin/crat. Quantity =/= Quality.

One could have done, say, 500 edits in 2 months, of which 490 were so small they don't even make a difference. Or one could have done only 20 edits in 4 months, of which 18 were big, noticeable, and really improved the wiki's articles.

2) Like I said, there are dozens of members on staff, many of them capable of doing the same basic functions, particularly when dealing with vandals or making edits to pages.

Why should one make an edit to a page when someone else already did the job in a satisfactory manner?