Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20171203184931/@comment-25356303-20180105194329

Sorry for the delay: the results are now in! Over this one-month period, the 25 of you who entered the contest were able to add an effective 918,342 bytes of legitimate content to the wiki: that isn't even to count the hundreds of active editors who chose not to enter.

After the bytes were all added up, each user was assigned a range of numbers correlating to how many bytes they added during the contest period. People who added more content had a bigger range. Then, a script was run to randomly select three numbers: whoever's range these numbers were in got a prize.


 * Winners
 * The first place prize goes to The Cat Master, with the winning number 417,023.
 * The second place prize goes to Blademaster Jauffre, with the winning number 67,358.
 * The third place prize goes to The Beautiful Princess Ashley, with the winning number 222,895.

For the curious, here's a table containing some of the data used to calculate the winners. I also decided to add the percent of total bytes that each user added, just for a sense of scale. If you want, you can use the up/down arrows on each of the columns to sort by each variable.

Congratulations to the three winners! Now, I want to reflect briefly on how the methodology affected editing at large as well as the exact data chosen for the contest.
 * We saw an increase in overall content addition during the contest period by people who entered the contest. In this respect, it was a success.
 * Adding up all the data, I personally felt that making high-quality file uploads equal to 250 bytes was appropriate. If we do this again, I think we may stick to that number.
 * Unfortunately, the rules of the contest ignored some large edits that refurbished existing content, often trimming it down to a more appropriate size: this is why some of the values in the table above might seem inaccurate. In the future, it might be a good idea to instead consider how many byte changes were made, not just additions.

Finally, I want to thank everyone who contributed as part of the contest, and of course all the other editors who helped out but chose not to enter. Regardless of your participation in the raffle, I cannot express how meaningful your contributions are to the wiki! I'll stick around and answer questions if there are any. Happy editing!