MarioWiki:Anniversary/2008

Friday August 8th, 2008 August 08 2008 19:00:00 EST See festivities from 2007 1 Why? What?   2 Awards Committee Signup   3 Userpedia Awards   4 Schedule   5 Contact Why? What? The Super Mario Wiki was created on August 12th, 2005, 13:47 EDT. On August 12th, 2006, this wiki was off to a good start, but still there was only a small amount of active users. On Saturday August 11th, 2007 with a userbase finally forming, we celebrated our wiki's existence with an awards show on 30 of our favorite Mario topics, including favorite games, music, items, series, moments, enemies, and more. Now with 37,559 users and counting, that time is approaching again. An amazing 62 voted on our first awards last year, but before actual voting gets underway, we need all the help we can get – and that possibility comes with the Awards Committee. Awards Committee Signup The requirements/duties are quite simple for being part of this group: Must have an account on the forum, for the special group board. Must be able to get into IRC chat channel #mwikiawards, via Special:Chat, Darkmyst, ChatZilla or otherwise to meet most Friday OR Saturday night for meetings, probably for two hours in the 6-10p range. Will be revising the 30 awards and their nominees to a) update for this year (i.e. all 3 Most Anticipated games have come out) and b) replacing some of the less interesting ones. Possibly "user awards" – mentioning active users for what they have done for the wiki. It would short, to the point, and littered throughout the ceremony. There will be several chats to do this, so there is no rush, and we can have fun. Please, if you can, add your name to this list here: Wa TC@Y – Manager RAP... – Returning user here! And with Hooktail for the second time in the awards!! XD And maybe work on Userpedia awards too! The MissingLinkYEAH!!! Alphaclaw11  Plumber I'm not working on user awards. Fly Guy 2 I'm so doing this. Xpike the hedgehog I'm be in Userpedia's too :3 BLOC PARTIER. Oh, sure, why not. ;) Jdrowlands (talk) – Of course. King Mario - I wasn't able to participate in the last one So I decided to be apart of these Awards :) WarioLoaf (talk) MisterJaffffey G0 Anniversary/2008 - I wanna help in any way I can! Glitchman (talk · contribs) - What's to do?? Bean Master Crash - I am the 'crat thar, but i'll see what i can do. Palkia47 - I'll try! Informant - Sounds good. Chaos NEEDS MOAR NINJI Hope I can help. Informant     All users above the line can now access the underground board. Userpedia Awards? Userpedia is a sub-wiki of ours where many of our active users enjoy creating comics involving sprite versions of themselves or others. Encyclopedia speaking, it is a wiki covering this wiki, but articles about users, important pages and the like have additional details added to them to give Userpedia itself a whole different feel than MarioWiki. It is closing in on 1000 articles. I (Wayoshi) am considering including Userpedia as a separate, smaller sub-set for this year's awards, if the Userpedia admins agree, and as long as it is all in good fun, without competition. At best, about 10-15 awards can be constituted involving Best Comic Series, Best Sprites, etc. The only concern is that no one will be a sore loser and ruin the mood. If this turns out well, the awards committee will need Userpedia users to help me with the awards and their nominations. I may direct votes for this to a Userpedia admin as well. Schedule Currently we're just starting out. I hope to start Awards Committee meetings in mid-to-late April, get the awards out for voting in June, send out results for presenters in July, and of course, the ceremony on 8/8/08. I will have exact dates as we get close to them. Contact I am available via the following: User talk message, email user wiki function, My Gmail address, on the chat room very often, AIM username WayoshiM. You are free to bring up anything with me if you feel it appropriate. Suggestions to make the awards more interesting? Don't think Userpedia should be involved? Issues from last year that need to be resolved? Please, let me know.