This award recognizes various retired users of the community for their achievement and other neat things that are appreciated and will be missed. The bullet points don’t mean to speak for their entire time spent here but just a glimpse and what they’ve done.
Early Sysop, known for contributing a lot including to articles about the DiC Mario cartoons, Nintendo Adventure Books, and to the Wiki Alliance project.
RandomYoshi
Former #mwchat operator, known for his love of Math and Mafia.
Former Mariowiki Sysop, Co-Director of The ‘Shroom’s Pipe Plaza, Marioboards moderator, Userpedia Steward and Bureaucrat, #mwchat operator, amongst other things.
This award recognizes the creative stories that vary greatly in style and genre, made by Users within this community usually featuring Users and themes from this community.
Please give each of these stories a read to better know what they are, the styles and voice of the writers, and just general entertainment from reading them.
A comedic parody of a news/talk show, specifically The Soup, based on events that happened in the Mariowiki (chat, forum, wiki) and extended community, featuring various recurring sections, characters, and themes.
User Soup was highly popular within the community, spurring a few parodies of its own to follow its footsteps after it ended its run on January 1st 2011.
This is an ongoing (likely canceled) series of mystery stories.
Two are currently finished (The Case of the Toxic Donut and The Case of the Haunted House), with 15 chapters, an intro, and conclusion; the third story, The Donut Shop Dilemma has the introduction completed, but has not been updated in a while.
This adventure story, unfortunately stagnant, follows characters based on Users from the community though the Pokémon region of Unova, following elements of the Black/White games and animé.
The Users who characters are based on had a hand before the story was written, presenting the author, Dr. Javelin, with desired teams, moves, personalities, and designs.
It is a sprite comic set in the Mariowiki; it follows the quest of a user, who upon his return begins noticing strange things happening in the Mariowiki.
Based off of the popular Polandball comics elsewhere on the internet, these short comics are a collective made not by an individual but anyone who follows the rules and posts.
This award recognizes a User who has developed a community persona that really clicks with the rest of the community. The nominations have been selected for their unique style, depth, impact, design, and other cool things.
Nominee
Summary/Description
Walkazo
She is a Dragon-Koopa, an unofficial name for the species also including Bowser, with red eyes and blue hair.
The design is based on her OC, Bowselta, the wife of Bowser in her fanfics.
Mr. Edo
Known mostly by his original character "Fenrir Mildred Edo", a purple ice dragon mutt with green hair.
Edo changes his character appearance based on various media he finds interest in at the time, with each one taking on a creative and unique personality and style.
His favorite flavor of tea is rooibos vanilla.
Puddin
Puddin is a Magikoopa with red robes, brown hair, square glasses, and a blue cape, but has a new color palette with a purple robe, a green cape, and green shoes.
He really likes toucans, and is often surrounded by them.
Lives in The Macadamia Realm, a place created by him as the setting for several comics.
Uniju
His design is based on Orbinauts, sea urchin-like badniks from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
Rather than spiked balls, ABXY buttons hover around his main body.
He appears in many comics, and is also the creator of several popular ones like Uniju Holiday Theater.
Crocodile Dippy
Dippy is a cyan Pikachu carrying a blue electric guitar, with a more recent design being worked on.
This newer design, which she calls “outback Dippy”, is still a cyan Pikachu, but instead has an akubra, rifle, and backpack.
Her backstory includes being abandoned as a toddler, raised in the way of the Crocodile gods, and taught how to use weaponry.
Toadbert101
Toadbert resembles Luigi with shades, an open business suit, and a loose tie, presumably to show just how serious he is about absolutely everything ever.
Being quite well at drawing expressions, Toadbert draws comics depicting his everyday adventures, from Oregon Trail to grocery shopping.
Founding member of The Silly hats Club.
Master Crash
Despite being named after a Bob-omb from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, he more closely resembles Luigi / Mr. L.
Because he is a User who has been around for many years, he is featured in many classic Userpedia fictions.
Groden
Groden is an insane pigman and that pretty much sums up everything.
Smasher
Being a very active member and admin on the Marioboards, his design pops up in all sorts of scenarios.
Originally a Bowser that was half-grayscale, he is now fully gray with red eyes which totally looks more hardcore totally.
This design, which he refers to as his Dark Bowser form, has some variations in appearance, particularly with the eyebrows, which is probably because of something evil maybe. Eyebrows are weird.
Allegedly over 40,000 years old, he has a boisterous, violent, and larger-than-life personality which some pass off as “cute”.
MrConcreteDonkey
Despite his name, MCD is a regular Cyndaquil with a posh monocle and top hat.
Because he is a demon who can hypnotize anyone upon eye contact, his eyes remain shut until necessary.
He is Edo’s hat.
Anton
Anton is a redheaded magikoopa wearing white mage robes, specializing in hypnosis (totally isn’t a Psycho Kamek rip-off wearing a wig, really, totally), advice, tentacles, and style, with a tendency to alternate between stern & serious and quacky & wacky.
Aside from headling the Dear Anton advice column in The ‘Shroom, where his appearance changes with the theme of a featured question, he has been featured in many contemporary comics and fiction in the community.
Guildmaster of Team Chex Mix, leading his close friends on grand adventures of doing pretty much nothing but silly nonsense.
DragonFreak
A purple dragon with green hair, not to be confused with Mr. Edo; she was originally based off of Spyro.
She is constantly and unreasonably cheerful about stuff, especially Mafia games, dragons, and weird things.
A game in which the majority of the players, known as the innocents, must try to find and eliminate a small team, known as the mafia, before they are outnumbered.
Depending on the game, there may be additional teams, players who are not part of any alignment, rules, themes, anything that the host can be creative with.
Most games can be found in the Mafia board on the forums.
Vote To Win
A type of elimination game in which characters are pit against each other in one-on-one matches.
Players vote on the character they want to win the match, and the one with the least amount of votes after a set time limit is eliminated. This continues over several rounds until only one character is left.
Most Vote to Win games can be found in the Elimination board on the forums.
Hurt and Heal
A type of elimination game in which a list of characters all start with a set amount of health.
Players take turns decreasing or increasing a character's health, and when a character's health reaches zero, it is eliminated. This continues until only one character is left.
Most Hurt and Heal games can be found in the Elimination board on the forums.
Counting Games
A type of game where all you have to do is count as more posts are made, but rules varying game by game increase the complexity or add some sort of flair.
A online card game involving playing nouns that fit adjectives.
Several bots using various injokes are popular within the Mariowiki user chatrooms, with ones ran by Smasher and Turboo being the most widely played.
Board Game Online
An online board game where players attempt to make it to the end first by any means possible. There are many different items, skills, and events that can help or hinder the players' progress.
Can be played either individually or in teams.
May not be suitable for younger players.
Uno
A card game where players try to get rid of their cards by matching the color or number of the last card played. There are some special cards that can affect the game. The first player to play all of their cards wins the hand.
A chatroom bot that runs the game is run by Icemario.
Cards Against Humanity
A card game similar in style with Apples to Apples, with "question" cards that must be answered, with often more raunchy answers.
Players try to be as funny as possible given the cards that they have. The current "Card Czar" picks their favorite answer, and the person who played that card gets a point.
Draw It
Draw It, played over on Epic Mafia, is basically an online Pictionary.
Users draw something and the others have to guess what it is; they get points if they guess it correctly and guess it first
Fibbage
A trivia game where a question is given from a category for the players to all provide fake answers to and trick others into believing it to be the correct one.
Points are scored for choosing the correct answer, as well as tricking others into believing yours.
Games are often played on the forum in other communities, but here it’s played in chat, usually hosted by SonicMario.
U10. Outstanding Community Achievement Award
U10 - Outstanding Community Achievement Award (Poll Closed)
This award acknowledges the hard work and dedication of various members of the community. They all are unique in their experiences and what they’ve done, having volunteered their time in all parts of the community in a number of ways. It should be noted that many nominees have expansive lists forged over the years, and while this may be impressive, please consider recent achievements and their greater relative impact today.
(For all ‘Shroom achievements, take a gander at the nomination explanations for The ‘Shroom Awards.)
Nominee
Summary/Description
Porplemontage
The Proprietor/Owner of Mariowiki, along with several others—Donkey Kong Wiki, Halopedia, Kingdom Hearts Wiki, Pikipedia, SmashWiki, and, as of December 2012, Destinypedia.
Super Mario Bros.
Current Director of The ‘Shroom (2011, 2012, 2015) and Former Co-Director, making him the longest serving Director.
Former Marioboards Admin.
Former Sysop of Mariowiki (29 June, 2010 – 11 March, 2013).
Former Poll Committee Chairperson (2010/2011, 2011/2012, and 2013/2014).
Former Sub-Director of the Awards Committee (2011 and 2012).
Former Founder of #mwchat (10 December 2009 – June 2014).
Former Userpedia Steward (21 August, 2010 – 18 November, 2012), returning later as a Bureaucrat (11 August, 2013).
Helped design Userpedia’s new theme and provides substantial technical help.
Former Mariowiki Sysop (7 April 2009 – 5 August, 2011) and Bureaucrat (20 July 2010 – 5 August, 2011).
Current #userpedia Admin.
Former ‘Shroom Sub-Director for various years.
Walkazo
Current Mariowiki Sysop (21 January, 2009 – present) and Bureaucrat (22 July, 2011 – present), with the 2nd longest term behind Porple.
Quite an active policymaker, known for her lengthy explanations.
Co-Author of Dragon Problem, a very popular comic within the community, currently nominated in U3.
Periodic guest writer for The ‘Shroom along with authoring a regular Mario’s Boombox column.
Former Userpedia Sysop (9 May, 2008 — 19 Jan, 2009) and Bureaucrat (2 Sep, 2008 – 19 Jan, 2009).
Global Mod on Xephyr (July 2010 – present).
Gamefreak75
Current Mariowiki Sysop (20 December, 2010 – present).
Current Marioboards admin.
Current #mwchat Admin.
Former Userpedia Sysop (30 December, 2010 – 3 April, 2015).
Current #userpedia Operator.
Turboo
Former Director of the Mariowiki Anniversary Awards Committee (2012 – 2014).
Current Sysop (19 March, 2014 – present) and former Mariowiki Patroller (30 April, 2013 – 19 March, 2014).
Former ‘Shroom Sub-Director (October 2013 - January 2015).
Current #mwchat Admin.
Current #userpedia Operator.
Current Userpedia Patroller (March 2015 - present) and former Userpedia Sysop (October 2009).
Crocodile Dippy
Current Critic Corner Director for The ‘Shroom and Contributing Writer (Crocodile Style Reviews, etc.); Affiliates Manager (21 January, 2012 – 21 July, 2012).
Former Mariowiki Patroller (17 August, 2007 – 31 October, 2007), and Sysop (31 October, 2007 – 20 June, 2008).
Former Assistant Administrator (28 March, 2009 – c. December, 2010; 5 January, 2012 – 21 March, 2012) and current Head Honcho (21 March, 2012 – present) on The Xephyr Board.
Anton
Current Awards Committee Co-Director (Mario Awards IX - 2015).
