User blog comment:Master Shadow Warrior/Badges?/@comment-32788838-20121114082216/@comment-1745925-20121115052036

They don't work on past edits. And what you'd find is that people just make large amounts of small edits that they would already have done as one big edit had the badges not existed.

If this was the canon wiki I'd probably support it. But it isn't so I don;t.