Editing Gyaanipedia:Service awards (section)

===Rationale for the requirements===
The edit count requirements for the levels are based on what, in the opinion of the editors who formulated the requirements, could be achieved by a human editor working with considerable regularity and diligence using the default tools and a fairly typical editing pattern. The awards for the first two years require a considerably lower edit rate than those for the later years.

Bots and editors using certain tools or editing patterns may achieve higher rates, while editors using certain editing patterns (such as mainly posting completed articles with a single edit and so forth) may have lower rates, and of course editors who do not edit regularly may have lower rates.

Thus, not all editors will see a good match between service time and edit counts (some editors may be eligible for a high level by service time but not by edit count, while other editors may be eligible for a high level by edit count, but not by service time). This is an imperfection which is an inherent consequence of the decision to use an uncomplicated system for determining eligibility for each award.
* The first seven levels (up to Veteran Editor or Tutnum), which cover the first two years of one's editing career, would require a rate of '''4,000 edits per year''' (an average of approximately 11 edits per day) if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization (except that the second level, Novice Editor or Burba, requires only 200 edits rather than 333, a rate of 2,400 edits per year, for an average of approximately '''6.6 edits per day''').
* Levels 8 through 11 (up to Senior Editor or Labutnum), which cover the next two years of one's editing career, would require a rate of '''8,000 edits per year''' (an average of approximately 22 edits per day) if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization.
* Levels 12 through 21 would require a rate of '''9,000 edits per year''' (an average of approximately 25 edits per day) if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization.
* Level 22 would require a rate of '''12,500 edits per year''' (an average of approximately 34 edits per day) if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization.
* Levels 23 and 24 would require a rate of '''15,000 edits per year''' (an average of approximately 41 edits per day) if one were to advance levels with edit counts and service time in perfect synchronization.