User blog comment:Banarama/GOODBYE 2017, HELLO 2018!/@comment-26806340-20180104200226/@comment-28083312-20180106170532

Edit count never really did matter. We only have rewards to encourage exiting, not glorification. What matters is good additions to the Wiki, be it in blogs, code, article cleanup, adding images, moderating, et cetera. My edit count is just a number, ditto for everyone else.