MarioWiki:Anniversary/2012



VOTE ON THE POLLS! 'Ceremony: August 12 2011 16:30:00 EDT    See festivities from 2010''

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.

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! 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!). We are also now past 11,000 articles! As such, the time has come again to plan another big event to celebrate the wiki – and hopefully bigger!

Last year, we expanded this event even more by including a new category called "'Shroom Awards". These awards were a huge success as well, and brought the amount of awards we presented up to 50.

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 awards channel, #mwikiawards.
 * 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 or Super Mario Bros. 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!

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.

And now...the list! We are only allowing an odd number of members in the Awards Committee this year to avoid having ties in certain discussions. Below is a list of members in the Awards Committee. To be an Awards Committee member, you must be able to come to the chatroom on Friday nights from 8-10p EDT. We are hoping to get at least 13 members. Don't sign up here, contact Ralph or SMB!


 * 1) (Brick Tamland)
 * 2) (United States of America)
 * 3) (apocalypseArisen)
 * 4) (turntechGodhead)
 * 5) (terminallyCapricious)
 * 6) (Mason)
 * 7) (BEEEEEAAARRRS)
 * 8) (Elegy of Emptiness)
 * 9) (Luigi's Mansion)
 * 10) (Northern Verve)
 * 11) (Dustox)
 * 12) (carcinoGeneticist)
 * 13)  (Doctor Oktoberfest)
 * 1)  (Doctor Oktoberfest)

Voting
Please do not enter joke votes or "none" in the other box. It makes calculating and tallying results very difficult.

And now here's something we hope you'll really like!

Presentations
Sign-ups for Award Presentations will open July 1st. Users will be allowed to present a maximum of four awards.

What are these presentations, you ask? Well, you get to reveal the results of the award you choose in some sort of digital medium, whether it is a written story (usually a narrative or an interview with a user or Mario series character), a comic, a picture or even a playable game or a combination of multiple forms. These can be serious or silly (though most people prefer the silly ones). Polls close on July 13, so users should receive their results in their inbox on the forums some time between then and the 16th. Presentation will be due August 5th. There are no exceptions. '''Do not sign up for a presentation if you are unsure if you can complete it. Doing so may result in a ban from creating presentations in future award shows.''' If something unexpected does come up, tell us as quickly as possible and we will be able to cover for you.

Who can sign up to present: -Users with accounts on both the wiki and the forum that can complete their presentation within the roughly 2.5-week window

Who cannot sign up to present: -Users without an account on the wiki or forum (you must have both) -Users who are banned on either the wiki or the forums -Users that have been banned from participating in Awards-related activities

Users that were previously banned but are not banned anymore will be accepted in some cases, but not all. This will be up to the discretion of the Awards Committee.

See you July 1st when sign-ups open!

Userpedia Awards and Game Tournaments
The user-based wiki, Userpedia, will be celebrating its fourth awards ceremony this summer. We are not certain if we will have 10 Userpedia Awards, as we did in 2008 and 2009, or 5 Userpedia Awards, as we did in 2010.

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...

NOTE: Game tournaments are not a guarantee for Mario Awards V. The Awards Committee will determine the inclusion or exclusion of these functions.

We chose to remain at five Userpedia Awards.

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 are expecting to once again have 10 Fail Awards this year. We have chosen to include 15 Fail Awards.

'Shroom Awards
Much discussion has been going on about the recognition of our local paper in the awards ceremony. Their inclusion (and possible expansion to 10 Awards) has not been determined yet. We have chosen to include ten 'Shroom Awards.

Expansion
Some AC members have been discussing expanding to include more Awards. Stay tuned for further updates on this issue. '''We have added five Fail Awards and five 'Shroom Awards. There was also talk of expanding Userpedia, but said expansion was denied. We currently have 60 awards.

Thanks!
A huge thank-you goes out to all the members of the Awards Committee for attending the meetings and deliberating on the forums. You guys did a great job this year and became more efficient as we went along. We hope to see you all again next year!

SPOILER: This doesn't mean your work is over. We still have things like award presentations and game tournaments to deal with (that is, if you want to include tournaments). The hard part is all done, though. Again, you guys were great.

Contact
[mailto:marioawards@gmail.com 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.