MarioWiki:Anniversary/2012

Ceremony: August 10 2012 See festivities from 2010 1 About   2 Awards Committee   3 Userpedia Awards 4 Fail Awards   5 'Shroom Awards   6 Game Tournaments and Other Events   7 Contact About 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. In 2008, 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. 2009 saw our first Fail Awards and 2010 included the first 'Shroom Awards. 2011 brought along game tournaments, a Mafia game and prizes for participation and success in said events. This year should be an even better celebration, with an experienced Awards Committee and an ever-growing Wiki. We have over 100,000,000 page views and nearly 12,000 articles, as well as more active users than ever. This year's celebration should be a blast! 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. We can then add you to the access list for the meetings 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 nights (good time-range: 8-10p EDT). 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. Contact Ralphfan if you are interested. If you can't attend enough meetings to be a part of the Committee, anyone can attend meetings, so don't worry! You must exercise basic judgment and common sense to be allowed on the committee. Committee members represent the Super Mario Wiki, so we expect a basic level of maturity, intelligence and kindness towards others. To sign up, send a PM to Ralphfan letting him know that your are intersted in joining the committee. This is just to make sure that the people that want to sign up will be able to attend consistently and conduct themselves properly. Ralph will also be contacting some users through either chat or the forums that will be given an invite to the committee. 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. Ralphfan (talk) (Director) Turboo (talk) Userpedia Awards The user-based wiki, Userpedia, has been featured in the ceremony since Mario Awards II. However, the amount of awards, categories of awards and quality of said categories have fluctuated in the past four years. The inclusion or exclusion of the Userpedia Awards will be one of the first things determined by the Awards Committee this year. NOTE: Game tournaments are not a guarantee for Mario Awards VI. The Awards Committee will determine the inclusion or exclusion of these functions. Fail Awards In 2009, the Awards Committee decided to introduce a new category into the awards ceremony: Fail Awards. These awards are similar to the Mario Awards, in that they are based solely on the Mario (and relative) series. However, these awards pertain to the worst of the worst. (As the name implies.) Entries may include "Worst Game" or "Worst Character", for example. We went from 10 to 15 Fail Awards in 2011, though it remains to be seen whether we will have 10 or 15 this year. 'Shroom Awards Much discussion has been going on about the recognition of our local paper in the awards ceremony. There were 5 'Shroom Awards in Mario Awards IV and 10 in Mario Awards V. Their inclusion has not been determined yet. It will be one of the first matters that the Awards Committee will cover. Game Tournaments and Other Events Mario Awards III featured our first tournament, a Mario Kart tournament. There were no game tournaments in Mario Awards IV, but in Mario Awards V, Baby Mario Bloops (talk) hosted a Brawl tournament. We hope to have at least one game tournament this year. Anyone wishing to organize a tournament, whether they are an AC member or not, should contact Ralph to get everything organized. We will once again have our "Guess the Results" contest to go with this year's Award polls, and an Awards Mafia II game will be hosted by Ralph! One of the best parts of last year's events was that we were able to give prizes to the participants who performed well in the Brawl tournament, Mafia Game and Guess the Results contest. We hope to be able to give away prizes to the winners this year as well. Anyone who would like to donate prizes to be given out is more than welcome to do so. Please contact Ralph if you would like to supply prizes. Recommended items include Steam points, Nintendo points, iTunes cards or gift cards to any other online site or store. Any donation would be highly appreciated. Contact marioawards@gmail.com Mario Awards on Twitter 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.