MarioWiki:Anniversary/2009

{|style="background:#fffefe;color:black;-moz-border-radius:8px;border:2px solid black;padding:4px" width=100% 'Ceremony: August 14 2009 17:00:00 EDT    See festivities from 2008''
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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 of 3/27/09, we are implementing a new style of Awards Committee:

EVERYONE IS AN HONORARY AC MEMBER! Chats are every Friday @ 8p EDT in #mwikiawards.

This change is to have those who care help us easier instead of going through a process. There will be no requirements, you can leave or join at any time or all the time. Having a forum account will be key to doing things outside of Friday nights, however.

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...

'''Gaming tournaments will be organized by Xpike this year and will include Brawl, possibly "Osu!", and maybe more. At this point, Userpedia Awards II IS a guarantee for Mario Awards III. Its inclusion was voted on HERE .'''

Contact

[mailto:marioawards@gmail.com marioawards@gmail.com] Suggestions Thread on Forum

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.