User blog comment:Custom Profile Link and Tags for Top Contributors/@comment-33658145-20160108144125

And how are we going to have a "TOP CONTRIBUTOR" badge on someone's profile? If we are going to do that, we would have to promote a top contributor to a spare user right (for example, patroller), and edit the name in a special MediaWiki page with the title "User-identity-box-NAMEOFUSERRIGHT".

There are two other spare user rights available: moderator and chat moderator. Since we don't use the chat much, we can just replace the chat moderator badge with the "TOP CONTRIBUTOR" badge.