Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20191209220607

Hi all, Atvelonis here. I'm sorry that I'm quite late with this thread, considering it is mid-December already, but as promised we will be having another iteration of our raffle editing series, as seen in Summer 2019, December 2020, etc. all the way back to 2015. The structure of the contest is similar to last year's; make constructive edits to the wiki, and you'll be eligible to win some pretty substantial real-world prizes from the Bethesda Store and beyond, ranging from TES-themed t-shirts to shot glasses to physical books to games. If this sounds interesting to you, please read on!

Eligibility
In order to be eligible to receive a prize, you will have to do the following: If you do these things, you will have a chance of getting a prize at the end of the contest in early January. The more you edit, the higher your chances of winning a prize will be!
 * 1) Have a registered Wikia account that has not been blocked between September 1st, 2019–January 15th, 2020.
 * 2) Enter the contest by commenting your interest as a response to this thread.
 * 3) Edit a mainspace page (a content article, such as Skyrim) at least once between December 1st, 2019–January 15th, 2020.

Rules
I am obviously not going to be eligible for a prize, but everyone else (including staff) can be.
 * 1) Every edit you make has a number attached to it called its "byte size"; this is a measurement of how much stuff you added/removed to/from a page. We will calculate the winners based partially off this, and partially off chance.
 * 2) File uploads will each be equivalent to an edit of 500 bytes (arbitrary value). Images tagged as poor quality will not be counted. Edits made in the MediaWiki, Template, Category, Portal, and Module namespaces will also be counted. Edits made to other namespaces, such as User Talk and Board Thread, will not be counted.
 * 3) If you make an edit which is reverted/highly modified by an editor, or is just unnecessary/needlessly large, it will not be counted. All existing wiki rules and style guidelines apply too.

In essence, create/expand articles, write walkthroughs, upload images, and otherwise add information to the wiki! Maintenance edits will not be ignored, but you have a much better chance of winning if you add a lot of content!

Prizes

 * 1) The three users who had the highest absolute byte size of all their edits during the contest period combined will receive any TES-related item(s) from the Bethesda Store, Steam, GOG, etc. of their choosing, under a certain price (to be determined).
 * 2) We will choose an additional set of winners through a combination of byte size and chance. I'm working with Wikia/Bethsda/ZeniMax to coordinate something here, but I don't have any details yet.
 * 3) Either Wikia or myself will be paying for the cost and shipping of the prizes for all of the winners of the contest. We will reach out to the winners afterwards in order to coordinate prize selection and shipping (direct or via poste restante, if desired).

If you don't know how to edit, that's okay! It might seem intimidating at first, but it's actually not that difficult to learn. I have a full guide for the syntax here, and slightly more digestible guides on Discussions: 1, 2, 3. If you're ever confused about how to edit something, please don't hesitate to reach out to a staff member for help. Happy editing! 