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{{Nutshell|Some editors choose to acknowledge their service to Wikipedia by displaying a service award, which denotes time served and number of edits made. These awards are unofficial – displaying the wrong one carries no penalty (except possible disapproval from other editors), and displaying the right one does not indicate authority or competence (except possible respect from other editors).}}

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'''Incremental service awards''' are a simple way of acknowledging an editor's level of contribution based on two specific benchmarks: the number of contributions the editor made to [[Wikipedia]] and the length of time they have been registered. [[Academic authorship|Academic interlocutors]] have described Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:service awards|service award schema]] as a way to award the [[self]]. The incremental service awards extend that tenet.

Unlike the Standard Unofficial Service Awards these awards are used to allow the users to have awards in-between the Major service awards.

'''Please remember that time spent with and number of edits to Wikipedia are not indicative of the quality of an editor's contributions, or of their diplomatic ability.''' Service awards also do not indicate any level of authority; "veteran" editors have no more authority than "novice" editors.

==Levels==
Currently there are 20 incremental service awards, four levels each for the first five service awards. The images for further incremental service awards still exist (although the templates are not available)—check this [[Special:Permalink/680429383|page history]] for their use.

To keep the validity and status of the major service awards, a ribbon is the only variant of the incremental service award.

===List of requirements for incremental service awards===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!colspan=2|Award
!Level!!Number of levels!!Edits!!Incremental number of edits!!Period!!Incremental length of period
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1
| rowspan="3" | [[#Registered Editor (or Signator)|Registered Editor (or Signator)]]
|Level 2||rowspan="15" | 4||50||rowspan="3" | 50 edits||8 days||rowspan="3" | 7 days
|-
|Level 3||100||15 days
|-
|Level 4||150||23 days
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2
| rowspan="3" | [[#Novice Editor (or Burba)|Novice Editor (or Burba)]]
|Level 2||400||rowspan="3" | 200 edits||1 month 15 days||rowspan="3" | 15 days
|-
|Level 3||600||2 months
|-
|Level 4||800||2 months 15 days
|-
| rowspan="3" | 3
| rowspan="3" | [[#Apprentice Editor (or Novato)|Apprentice Editor (or Novato)]]
|Level 2||1,250||rowspan="3" | 250 edits||3 months 23 days||rowspan="3" | 23 days
|-
|Level 3||1,500||4 months 15 days
|-
|Level 4||1,750||5 months 8 days
|-
| rowspan="3" | 4
| rowspan="3" | [[#Journeyman Editor (or Grognard)|Journeyman Editor (or Grognard)]]
|Level 2||2,500||rowspan="6" |500 edits|| 7 months 15 days||rowspan="6" | 1 month 15 days
|-
|Level 3||3,000||9 months
|-
|Level 4||3,500||10 months 15 days
|-
| rowspan="3" | 5
| rowspan="3" | [[#Yeoman Editor (or Grognard Extraordinaire)|Yeoman Editor (or Grognard Extraordinaire)]]
|Level 2||4,500||13 months 15 days
|-
|Level 3||5,000||15 months
|-
|Level 4||5,500||16 months 15 days
|-
|}

==Ribbons==
{| class="wikitable"
! Level
! Ribbons
! Small ribbons
! Requirements
|-
| colspan="4" |

===Registered Editor (or Signator)===
|-
| Level 2
|{{Registered Editor lv2 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Registered Editor lv2 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib01-2.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib01-2.svg]]
|
* 50 edits
* 8 days of service
|-
| Level 3
|{{Registered Editor lv3 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Registered Editor lv3 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib01-3.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib01-3.svg]]
|
* 100 edits
* 15 days of service
|-
| Level 4
|{{Registered Editor lv4 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Registered Editor lv4 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib01-4.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib01-4.svg]]
|
* 150 edits
* 23 days of service
|-
| colspan="4" |

===Novice Editor (or Burba)===
|-
| Level 2
|{{Burba lv2 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Burba lv2 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib02-2.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib02-2.svg]]
|
* 400 edits
* 1 month 15 days of service
|-
| Level 3
|{{Burba lv3 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Burba lv3 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib02-3.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib02-3.svg]]
|
* 600 edits
* 2 months of service
|-
| Level 4
|{{Burba lv4 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Burba lv4 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib02-4.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib02-4.svg]]
|
* 800 edits
* 2 months 15 days of service
|-
| colspan="4" |

===Apprentice Editor (or Novato)===
|-
| Level 2
|{{Apprentice lv2 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Apprentice lv2 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib03-2.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib03-2.svg]]
|
* 1,250 edits
* 3 months 23 days of service
|-
| Level 3
|{{Apprentice lv3 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Apprentice lv3 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib03-3.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib03-3.svg]]
|
* 1,500 edits
* 4 months 15 days of service
|-
| Level 4
|{{Apprentice lv4 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Apprentice lv4 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib03-4.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib03-4.svg]]
|
* 1,750 edits
* 5 months 8 days of service
|-
| colspan="4" |

===Journeyman Editor (or Grognard)===
|-
| Level 2
|{{Journeyman lv2 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Journeyman lv2 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib04-2.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib04-2.svg]]
|
* 2,500 edits
* 7 months 15 days of service
|-
| Level 3
|{{Journeyman lv3 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Journeyman lv3 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib04-3.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib04-3.svg]]
|
* 3,000 edits
* 9 months of service
|-
| Level 4
|{{Journeyman lv4 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Journeyman lv4 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib04-4.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib04-4.svg]]
|
* 3,500 edits
* 10 months 15 days of service
|-
| colspan="4" |

===Yeoman Editor (or Grognard Extraordinaire)===
|-
| Level 2
|{{Yeoman lv2 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Yeoman lv2 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib05-2.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib05-2.svg]]
|
* 4,500 edits
* 13 months 15 days of service
|-
| Level 3
|{{Yeoman lv3 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Yeoman lv3 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib05-3.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib05-3.svg]]
|
* 5,000 edits
* 15 months of service
|-
| Level 4
|{{Yeoman lv4 Ribbon}}
{{-}}'''{{tl|Yeoman lv4 Ribbon}}'''
|[[File:Editorrib05-4.svg]] <br />
[[:File:Editorrib05-4.svg]]
|
* 5,500 edits
* 16 months 15 days of service
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Service awards]]
* [[Wikipedia:Ribbons#Service Award and Incremental Service Award Ribbons|Wikipedia Ribbon alternatives]]

{{Orders, decorations, and medals of Wikipedia}}

[[Category:Wikipedia awards]]