User blog comment:Crazyhead88/What is with the badges?/@comment-2146224-20110917214857

Ah, I see. Because the badges were "activated" (I guess you can say it like that) a few days ago, There has been 1,000 edits since then. For example, you've done many edits already, but they barely gave you the badge for 10 edits now, as the badges were not introduced onto the wiki yet.