What are Recognition Points and Achievement Medals?
Recognition Points show how successful you are in the MSDN/TechNet community. It tells people how trusted of a source you are. So if someone says something, and they've got 100,000+ Recognition Points, and someone disagrees who has 35 Recognition Points, who are you going to believe? Boom.
You get Recognition Points by being successful... In Forums that comes when your posts are marked as answers and when folks vote for them as Helpful. In Gallery that comes from the amount of downloads your contributions have and when folks rate your code snippet/download. In Blogs that comes with views and when people rate the blog posts highly.
And finally (and most importantly), in Wiki they come in views when an article that you either authored or edited gets a certain number of views:
First, the article you authored reached one out of 10 possible page view milestones. The various milestones range between 500 and 1 million page views. Then you get between +5 to +2500 Recognition Points.
Second, the article you edited reached one out of 10 possible page view milestones. The various milestones range between 500 and 1 million page views. You are eligible to receive a portion of an available set of points, depending upon your edit quantity and the milestone reached. Then you get between +1 to +2500 Recognition Points.
Wiki Activity Point Summary Trigger Points (Create) Points (Update) Activity Message (original author) Article viewed 500 times 5 1 The article has achieved its 15 minutes of fame. Congratulations! Article viewed 1,000 times 10 1 The article has reached the critical mass. Well done! Article viewed 3,000 times 25 3 The article is pulling away from the pack. Way to go! Article viewed 5,000 times 30 3 The article has possibly gone viral. This is full of win! Article viewed 10,000 times 50 5 The article has become an interwebs sensation. Epic! Article viewed 20,000 times 150 15 The article has become a global phenomenon. Smile for the cameras! Article viewed 50,000 times 200 20 The article has possibly becomes Kind of a Big Deal. Article viewed 100,000 times 250 25 The article is officially the Greatest Thing Ever. Congratulations! Article viewed 500,000 times 1,000 100 The article is Setting World Records. Incredible! Article viewed 1,000,000 times 2,500 250 The article has discovered the end of the internet. You win, congratulations. Article is published 0 0 Contributed a new article [@PAGE_URL|@PAGE_TITLE] to the TechNet Wiki. Edit is made to an article 0 0 Updated the article [@PAGE_URL|@PAGE_TITLE] on the TechNet Wiki Comment is left on an article 0 0 Commented on the article [@PAGE_URL|@PAGE_TITLE] on the TechNet Wiki Comment is left with an edit to an article 0 0 Commented on the article [@PAGE_URL|@PAGE_TITLE] on the TechNet Wiki
Wiki Activity Point Summary
Achievement Medals show your accomplishments. Where Recognition Points focus on the QUALITY of what you do, the Achievement Medals focus on the QUANTITY of what you do... so you can try to collect them all. As you'll see, you get quick wins with the Bronze Medals, but the Gold Medals take a little more work.
Here's what you can get for TechNet Wiki...
BRONZE:
SILVER:
GOLD:
Wiki Achievement Summary Achievement Medal Trigger Description New Wiki Contributor 1x Create Article Published your first article as a Wiki contributor. Wiki Contributor II 10x Create Article 6x500 Page Views Published multiple, quality Wiki articles. Wiki Contributor III 50x Create Article 20x500 Page Views Demonstrated an on-going commitment to high quality Wiki contributions. New Wiki Editor 1x Edit Article Made your first revision to a Wiki article. Wiki Editor II 25x Edits 10x500 Page Views Made multiple edits which contributed to continued community engagement. Wiki Editor III 100x Edits 20x500 Page Views Demonstrated an on-going commitment to providing meaningful revisions to the Wiki. New Wiki Commentator 1x Comment Posted your first comment to a Wiki article. Wiki Commentator II 35x Comments Contributed multiple comments to Wiki articles. Wiki Commentator III 100x Comments Demonstrated an on-going commitment to participation in the Wiki community. Wiki Community Editor 10x Revision Comments Revised multiple articles and contributed comments for your revisions Wiki Community Editor II 50x Revision Comments Demonstrated an on-going dedication to the quality of the Wiki through multiple edits with comments. Wiki Ninja 500x Create Article Demonstrated an uncanny commitment to the success of the Wiki. Thank you! Wiki Ninja Master 1000x Create Article Demonstrated a superhuman commitment to the success of the Wiki. Amazing! Wiki Ninja Supreme 2000x Create Article You are the Ninja Supreme of all that is Wiki. Simply incredible!
Wiki Achievement Summary
Click here for more info about how to earn specific Achievement Medals (for all the social tools).
See this list on TechNet Wiki of the medals (it's a different way to organize the same list, so it might be easier to read).
TechNet Wiki: Cómo ganar Puntos de Reconocimiento y Medallas de Logros (es-ES) - in Spanish
Naomi N edited Revision 6. Comment: Article needs See Also section
Carsten Siemens edited Revision 5. Comment: Added tag: has comment
Richard Mueller edited Revision 4. Comment: Replace RGB values with color names in HTML to restore colors.
Danny van Dam edited Revision 3. Comment: removed (one has this yet) from the Wiki Ninja achievement and moved this to the Wiki Ninja Master achievment (Ed Price has the Wiki Ninja gold achievment)
Naomi N edited Revision 2. Comment: Added other languages section
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 1. Comment: Fix link
Ed Price - MSFT edited Original. Comment: TOC
Hi, here's the Spanish article for this one:
social.technet.microsoft.com/.../17885.technet-wiki-como-ganar-puntos-de-reconocimiento-y-medallas-de-logros.aspx
Revision would be appreciate.