User blog:Edwin Shade/How To Become Number One On The Leaderboard

There is a large loophole which I have discovered in the Wikia's achievement system, and which is so blatant it's a wonder dozens of people have not tried to exploit this to their own advantage by now. This loophole will work on any Wikia in which badges are enabled, and the Googology Wiki is one of them. When I tried it, these were the results:



I did this to both be number one, and to prove my method works. It would not be fair though, in my opinion, for me to covet this position without sharing the opportunity for you to achieve the same. So without further ado, here is what you must do.

The trick is very simple, and it is as follows. First, copy the following list of categories, of which there are 2,550. Paste them in a word document to ensure that you have not also copied the no wiki-tags at the beginning and end; if you have, then remove these tags or these categories will not register as such.

[[Category:1]] [[Category:2]] [[Category:3]] [[Category:4]] [[Category:5]] [[Category:6]] [[Category:7]] [[Category:8]] [[Category:9]]

Next paste this string of categories into the source code of a main space page of your choice, from the list of candidates for deletion. Do not use a page that is not a candidate for deletion, as that would be considered vandalism. Now publish your edit, then edit the page again and in the source code, remove the string of categories, then publish your edit once more. Repeat as necessary.

Because you are pasting 2,550 categories, it will give you 2,550/250, or 10.5 badges, so for every two times you execute this entire process you will receive 21 category badges, worth a total of 2,100 achievement points. To beat my current number of achievement points you will need to repeat the process in the above paragraph 21 times, (assuming you began at 0 achievement points, which is unlikely).