MarioWiki:Anniversary/2009

File:Image-Awardsbanner.png Ceremony: August 14 2009 17:00:00 EDT See festivities from 2008 1 What? Why?   2 Awards Committee   3 Userpedia Awards and Game Tournaments 4 Contact What? Why? 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. Last year, we expanded this magnificent event by including much of our userbase with Userpedia Awards I, and on August 8th, 2008, it turned out to be an even bigger success. And you've bet we've grown some more since then – we reached an astounding 9 digits in the page view count (100,000,000!) and increased that total number, accomplished in almost 3.5 years, by 10% in just two months (110,000,000 and rising!). As such, the time has come again to plan another big event to celebrate the wiki – and hopefully bigger! Awards Committee As veterans may have come here to do, it's time – Awards Committee sign-up! This is the only sign-up right now. What the committee decides over the next 10-12 weeks will influence what other sign-ups will come in June, but we will have exact dates of things for you well in advance, so watch this page to keep track of announcements. There are a few minimal requirements to be an AC member this year: You must have a registered username on the Darkmyst network. This is a Nickserv function. This is because mode k for keyword (password) didn't work too great last year, and only a level 1 restriction will guarantee no break-ins. You must be a forum member. We will be utilizing an underground forum to discuss meeting times and keep track of progress. You must be able to make yourself available on Friday and/or Saturday nights (good time-range: 8-10p EDT). This year, I will be available on more Fridays than Saturdays, but since school's kicking me in the *beep* with SATs, research papers, and other *beep*, school nights (Sunday-Thursday) just aren't going to work, unless it's an emergency. If you know you can't get to too many meetings, please don't sign up. I would like to do a meeting a week, but I know some of us actually do have lives (amazing, I know), so we can skip a couple of weeks or move a Friday to a Saturday or vice versa. Again, we'll use the forum to discuss adjustments. Mainly, the AC decides what awards will be voted on in June. However, there are important matters as well, see below the sign-up list. Sign-Up And now...the list!There is no limit to how many, but in my experience we never get past 20. :P Use ~~~ or {{user}} and state your chat and/or forum names if they are different from your username here. Wa TC@Y – Director :) Storm Yoshi Maybe something like favourite Side Villians(Like Fawful, one timers) Super-YoshiTalk? C??? Oh come on Wayo, you know me.                                   Userpedia Awards and Game Tournaments Very sadly, the wiki farm Scribblewiki did not back up their servers properly – a big no-no in online business. When the warehouse where their servers were caught fire, their backups did not function properly, and they were forced to completely shut down in shame. Nothing could be recovered, and it left everyone irate. Userpedia, thriving still at the time, went to nothing. Since, after several wiki farm experiments failed, Userpedia has found a new home, but many users have been lost in the hopping from sucky farm to suckier farm. It is currently here, and relatively active, but it is nowhere close to where it was a year ago. Game tournaments was something that we hoped to materialize last year, particularly in Brawl, but it didn't pan out. But with each year, we grow, get more people, and do better...however... Neither Userpedia Awards II nor game tournaments are a guarantee for Mario Awards III. The Awards Committee will decide the inclusion or exclusion of these functions. Contact marioawards@gmail.com You are free to bring up anything with us if you feel it appropriate. Suggestions to make the awards more interesting? Issues from last year that need to be resolved? Please, let us know.