Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20181121225608

Hi all, Atvelonis here. In December 2015 and 2017, the wiki administration  has hosted a raffle for the community here, with prizes ranging from themed t-shirts to shot glasses to physical books available on the Bethesda Store. This year, I'm happy to announce that we will be holding our third raffle in December, using a similar structure as we did last year! If this piques your interest, 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 November 1st–January 1st.
 * 2) Enter the contest by commenting your interest as a response to this thread.
 * 3) Edit a mainspace page (a content article) at least once between December 1st–January 1st.

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 add these up per user and calculate the winners based partially off this, and partially off chance.
 * 2) Every high-quality file that you upload will be equivalent to an edit of 250 bytes. Images tagged as poor quality 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.

Prizes
Users who make the most edits will have the greatest chance of winning a prize, but it will be possible for anyone who makes at least one edit during the contest to win something.
 * 1) The three users who had the highest absolute byte size 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) Eight additional winners (chosen through a combination of byte changes and chance) will receive a plush gryphon kindly provided to us by Bethesda/ZeniMax. Thank you to BertH and his colleagues at Wikia for helping us to secure these prizes!
 * 3) I will be paying for the cost and shipping of the prizes for the top three winners, but Wikia will be covering the shipping costs for the plushes. The winners will receive emails from Wikia after the contest where they can provide their shipping address (or nearby post office, for poste restante).

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! 