MarioWiki:Anniversary/2007

Saturday, August 11th, 7-11PM EDT 1 Why? What?   2 Outline   3 Schedule   4 Awards Committee List   5 Suggestions for Show-Time Why? What? The Super Mario Wiki was created on August 12th, 2005. On August 12th, 2006, this wiki was off to a good start, but still beginning and with a small community of active users. Now we are a big community and very vibrant, and coming up on the 2nd anniversary of the wiki's creation, it's time to celebrate...the wiki. And what better way to do that than with a... Mario Awards Show!! Outline Here's the plan: on Saturday, August 11th, we'll have a big awards show chat-and-forum-party blast. However, it will take months of preparation, and has already started! During the process, you will be able to vote for your favorites from 30 awards. The Committee has voted these components of the show in: User Awards. Our most active users would be recognized for a quality (i.e. best writer, most techincal, etc.). The no-user-awards rule implied recently would be ignored just this once – after all, this only comes once a year! Award Presentations. After voting, users sign up to take the results of 2-3 of the awards and create a Oscar-like script presenting the results, which could have the user himself/herself presenting, Mario characters presenting, or even other users interrupting and more (e.g. trolls try to ruin the show, a sysop conspiracy, etc.). These presentations would go in a giant forum thread, where registered users would be free to comment inbetween award presentations on the results or continue script ideas. That all goes down on August 11th from 7-11pm EDT. Coming back to the Awards Committee, they are meeting every other Friday night or so for about 2-3 hours up to the event to get those specifics down. In early-mid June, polls will be put up in a fashion yet to be determined (most likely on another MarioWiki page and to be emailed or PMed in to the Head of the Project, [again] Wayoshi) for about a month. That would give users about 25 days to get presentations ready, and then a day of full fun would play out on August 11th. In a post-party we will run into the actual day of the wiki's creation, August 12th, at midnight. See if you can get your parents to let you stay up late this one Saturday night – you won't want to miss it. Schedule The following is a table by (who else than?) Wayoshi that outlines exact dates on which events related to pre-show processes will hopefully occur. Included is a small description of the event and whether the awards committee (AC), the general body of wiki users (WU), forum users (FU) and/or guests (G) can be involved (note that the awards committee must also be forum users, but this is not noted). This also assumes that both user awards and award presentations are included. Event Date Description AC WU FU G Suggestions – Anyone can email/PM/leave a user talk message to Wayoshi any ideas they have for the show, awards to use, etc. See last section File:Check small.png File:Check small.png File:Check small.png File:Check small.png AC Meetings #1-5 March 31st-June 9th Determine exact awards and nominees, user awards, general idea of happenings on August 9th File:Check small.png       Polls! Vote! June 10th-July 11th Anyone can email/PM Wayoshi their award votes, now out during this ~30 day period. File:Check small.png File:Check small.png File:Check small.png File:Check small.png Take on Award Presentations July 13th Awards are available for users to pick up to write scripts.* File:Check small.png File:Check small.png File:Check small.png AC Meetings #6-9 June 23nd-August 4th Finalize any loose points, keep track of voting, decide user award presentations File:Check small.png       Chat Party August 11th, 10a-7p Par-tay! All day in the chat room! File:Check small.png   File:Check small.png   Mario Awards Show! August 11th, 7-11p All goes down in a big forum thread. File:Check small.png   File:Check small.png   *Must be both a forum & wiki user Awards Committee List We have 8 members now in stone after two meetings and this is who we are sticking with. Wa TC@Y – Head of the Committee (again: who else? :P) RAP... – Signed up! Yahoo, I'm first in line! ChrisAlassal 04:06, 25 March 2007 (EDT) For the Mario Wiki! Marioluigipeach3 (talk) Phoenix Rider WarioLoaf (talk) Plumber Suggestions for Show-Time Got a wonderful idea for the show? Or a good award to be included? Drop me a line by the following: User talk, PM, email. Wa TC@Y