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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=https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3156 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126164305/http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3156/2747 |archive-date=January 26, 2013 |url-status=live |journal=[[First Monday (journal)|First Monday]]|volume=16 |issue=1 |date=January 3, 2011 |title=Awarding the self in Wikipedia: Identity work and the disclosure of knowledge|first=Daniel |last=Ashton |accessdate=January 8, 2016|doi=10.5210/fm.v16i1.3156 |doi-access=free }}</ref> One may also think of them as auto-attained milestones.
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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