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{{Short description|Awards for contributions to Wikipedia}}
{{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.}}
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'''Service awards''' are a simple way of acknowledging an editor's level of contribution based on two specific benchmarks: the number of contributions that the editor has made to [[Wikipedia]] and the length of time registered. One [[Academic authorship|academic]] has described Wikipedia's service award [[wikt:schema|schema]] as a way to award the [[self]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=
This award is unlike [[Wikipedia:Awards|other awards]] given from one editor to another in a show of appreciation; '''it 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. 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. Typically, both the time and edit-count requirements are met before considering oneself eligible for each award level.
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==Award levels==
===Overview===
There are currently
* ''Signator'' is from the Latin {{lang|la|signātōrius}}, which means someone who has made a mark.
* {{lang|vec|Burba}} means "recruit" in [[Venetian language|Venetian]].
* {{lang|es|Novato}} is Spanish and Portuguese for "beginner".
* {{lang|fr|Grognard}} (French for "grumbler") was [[Napoleon]]'s pet name for his [[Old Guard (France)|Old Guard]].
* {{lang|el-latn|Ephoros}} ({{lang|el|ἔφορος}}) refers to the title given to the five highest-ranked [[Sparta]]n magistrates.
* ''Tutnum'', ''Labutnum'', ''Looshpah'', ''Togneme'', and ''Gom'' are made-up words that are intended to sound impressive.
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| 17 || [[#Master Editor IV (or Looshpah Laureate of the Encyclopedia)|Master Editor IV]] || [[#Master Editor IV (or Looshpah Laureate of the Encyclopedia)|Looshpah Laureate of the Encyclopedia]] || align=center|78,000 || 10 years
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| 18 || [[#Grandmaster Editor (or Grand High Togneme Vicarus)|Grandmaster Editor]] || [[#Grandmaster Editor (or Grand High Togneme Vicarus)|Grand High Togneme Vicarus]]{{efn|name=lord|Before December 2019, these Alternative Awards used "Lord" instead of "Grand", and uses of the original terms may still be seen in the wild. See [[Wikipedia talk:Service awards/Archive 7#Inclusivity? (or, Gender-Neutral Service Award Titles)]].}} || align=center|96,000 || 12 years
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| 19 || [[#Grandmaster Editor First-Class (or Grand High Togneme Laureate)|Grandmaster Editor First-Class]] || [[#Grandmaster Editor First-Class (or Grand High Togneme Laureate)|Grand High Togneme Laureate]]{{efn|name=lord}} || align=center|114,000 || 14 years
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| 22 || [[#Ultimate Vanguard Editor (or Cardinal Gom, the August Togneme of the Encyclopedia)|Ultimate Vanguard Editor]] || [[#Ultimate Vanguard Editor (or Cardinal Gom, the August Togneme of the Encyclopedia)|Cardinal Gom, the August Togneme of the Encyclopedia]] || align=center|175,000 || 20 years
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| 23 || [[#Sagacious Editor (or Ephoros of the Encyclopedia)|Sagacious Editor]] || [[#Sagacious Editor (or Ephoros of the Encyclopedia)|Ephoros of the Encyclopedia]] || align=center|205,000 || 22 years
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==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 [[Wikipedia:Bots|bots]] and deleted edits, are okay to count. If you want to count edits on other Wikimedia projects, that is okay too. If you began as an anonymous [[Wikipedia:User access levels#Unregistered users|IP editor]] and want to count from the time of your first IP edit, that is 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 from an older account or IP address of yours. It is all based on the honor system, so do what you think gives you the most fair and accurate award level.
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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 do not 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''' (an average of
* 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''' (an average of approximately 22 edits per day) if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization.
* Levels 12 through 21 would require a rate of '''9,000 edits per year''' (an average of approximately 25 edits per day) if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization.
* Level 22 would require a rate of '''12,500 edits per year''' (an average of approximately
* Level 23 would require a rate of '''15,000 edits per year''' (an average of approximately 41 edits per day) if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization.
==Images, userboxes, and top icons==
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==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Awards]]
* [[Wikipedia:Barnstars]]▼
* [[Wikipedia:Administrative service awards]]
* [[Wikipedia:Incremental service awards (Ribbons)]]
* [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits]]
* [[Wikipedia:Ribbons]]
▲* [[Wikipedia:Barnstars]]
* [[Wikipedia:Userboxes]]
* [[Wikipedia:Ten Year Society]]
* [[Wikipedia:Fifteen Year Society]]
* [[Wikipedia:Twenty Year Society]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians]]
* {{tl|Service awards}}, a template for displaying one's service award badge
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