Thread:NoWayThisUsernameIsAlreadyOwnedBySomeone/@comment-27476622-20160307164152/@comment-26143371-20160308162944

Maintenance means more work for us, while people don't use the awards function much. I wonder how I could "use" this function Admins can disable Achievements if they choose to, and many big wikis have because of badge-hunters doing non-constructive edits. It happens here too every once in a while, but never excessively. You might have seen one of those "Hi, I'm doing this for a badge!"-blogs with one or two "Nice blog!"-comments below it.

Just to rule out any possible misunderstanding between you and wikia: Did they actually call it awards in the answer? Awards (de) also exist, but they are something completely different.

There's this one I found. Not the one I remember, but close enough :)

After seeing this thread I checked my count and YAY! I got reset as well. That certainly is annoying! Sorry to hear that it happened to both of you. And the answers in that thread didn't sound very promising...

My counter still seems to be correct though, at day 134 currently.

I presume must have been something related to the contributions that seems to disappear sometimes from the Special:WikiActivity especially considering this comment, which happened slightly after Irgendeiner and I made edits. That's what I suspect too, we can send in a bug-report, but it won't fix the counters.