Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20181121225608/@comment-25356303-20190102044601

Hi all, the results for the raffle are out now. From December 1st, 2018 to January 1st, 2019, the 25 of you who entered the contest added a combined 1,202,207 bytes of content to the wiki. Excellent work!

To quickly review the methodology for choosing the winners: the three people who had the highest absolute byte counts for the month will receive prizes of their choice from the Bethesda Store. An additional eight winners were chosen by weighing their byte contributions over the month alongside a bit of luck.

The winners are as follows:
 * The first place prize goes to Blademaster Jauffre, with 536,000 bytes added.
 * The second place prize goes to TinyClayMan, with 301,807 bytes added.
 * The third place prize goes to The Dagonator, with 123,265 bytes added.
 * Additional prizes (the gryphon plushies) go to Amulet of Kings, DaBarkspawn, Ottoman Hold, RainyDragon, Rozty, Stygies VIII, The-Nord-In-Rags, and Vainyth.

Congratulations to the winners! I will contact the top three users privately to coordinate prize selection from the Bethesda Store. The remaining winners will be contacted by a representative from Wikia (via the email associated with their Wikia accounts) for shipping information for the plushies. There will be no charge for any of the winners—it is all complementary. If you didn't win a prize, better luck next time!

For the curious, here is the data for the contest, with the percentages on the right to three significant digits. You can sort the columns with the up/down arrows in the headers if you'd like.

Some quick afterthoughts:
 * We had about a 30.9% increase in byte contributions in this year's raffle as compared to last year's. This can be partially attributed to the fact that this time, we measured all byte changes (not just additions), and also higher engagement from the community.
 * Files were still calculated as 250 bytes each this time around. A couple people noted to me mid-contest that they thought this figure was a bit lower than it should have been. If we use this methodology again in future contests, this figure may be raised. We'll see.
 * The top three users in the contest changed an astounding 80.0% of the bytes out of the total value. This is up slightly from last year's figure of 74.1% for the top three contributors.

Once again, I would like to thank everyone who participated in the holiday raffle for 2018. Keep up the good work in 2019! I'll stick around on this thread if there are any questions. Happy editing!