MarioWiki:Anniversary/2009

{|style="background:#fffefe;color:black;-moz-border-radius:8px;border:2px solid black;padding:4px" width=100% AWARD AND TOURNAMENT SIGN-UPS OPEN IN: July 14 2009 12:00:00 EDT    POLLS CLOSE IN:  July 18 2009 00:00:00 EDT    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!

Voting! It's that time of year again – Mario Awards voting! As explained below, Userpedia Awards II will be conducted on their own site (link soon). But we still have 40 awards here – because we have a new subset of awards to introduce this year – the Fail Awards. Just 10 due to time constraints on Awards night, but there are still plenty of the worsts to go around, and you will find many nominees repeating in the best/worst versions of certain awards. We're also very happy to include embedded singular polls for each award – to skip, simply don't click the vote button! While the A#/N# system worked well, this should prove to be much more convenient. ^_^

Some notes:
 * I excluded the "other" option on A11 because these eight characters are defined from the rest due to games included in, etc., A19 since those are the only announced games.
 * Try to use proper grammar, spelling, conventions in Other votes so it's easier to add all the matching ones up later. I will discount stupid write-ins.
 * Cookies & IP blocking are in effect for repeat voting. If you are on a network (like a school system) and are blocked, personal computer at home should work. Please contact us if there is significant trouble in this.
 * Looking at this, over 90% of people have a high resolution now. For the 1024x768ers, this stretches a little I think. Sorry if you are one of the few left where this stretches worse. You can bring up this concern via contact as well.

Awards Committee Awards Committee work is over for this year, and helped greatly for the third year in constituting the awards. Major contributors: Stooben Rooben, RAP, Master Lucario, Neurario, Turboo, Ralphfan, Grapes, Plumber.

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.

Userpedia users may now vote on the following:

A Brawl tournament organized by will be the only one this year. Last year we expected more people and all of them collapsed on awards day. More details soon.

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.