After a whopping 18 month gestation, we’ve finally implemented the Generalist badge.
The Generalist badge works as follows:
Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of the top 40 tags.
The top 40 tag list is surprisingly diverse across the entire Trilogy. Just check out the top 40 tags (as of this writing) on Stack Overflow:
One thing the badge doesn’t say, is that there must be at least 200 questions in all 40 of the top tags before this badge is awarded to anyone. That’s why you won’t see it on meta for a bit longer, or any new sites for about a year. I don’t feel you can accurately measure a generalist until the top tag list settles down. …