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Warrior Cats - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:33:10 CDT

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Please leave your nominations for this category in the form of a thread. Once a site has been added to the list, the thread will be locked. Please do not second nominations, as it only serves to confuse the judges. Also, do not nominate wikis without the permission of the staff of the wiki you are nominating.

Role Play - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:23:11 CDT

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Rules & Regulations

Naru2008 — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:17:29 CDT

Rules & Regulations for entering your wiki in the Golden Paint Can Awards

Section 1: Entry
A. Age of wiki. Your wiki must be at least 30 days old by the time nominations close. Any wiki younger than 30 days will not stand a chance of being selected for any awards.
B. Your wiki must be public. Your wiki must be publicly viewable at all times, otherwise it will be impossible for the judges to visit your wiki and judge them. If your wiki also becomes private at any time after nominations close, it will be disqualified.

Section 1: Entry

A. Age of wiki.

Your wiki must be at least 30 days old by the time nominations close. Any wiki younger than 30 days will not stand a chance of being selected for any awards.

B. Your wiki must be public.

Your wiki must be publicly viewable at all times, otherwise it will be impossible for the judges to visit your wiki and judge them.
If your wiki also becomes private at any time after nominations close, it will be disqualified.

Section 2: Nominations
A. Number of categories. Wikis may only be nominated in one category. The only exception is if your wiki also qualifies for the Emerging Wiki category.
B. Do not second nominations. Not only is it unneccessary to second nominations, it is also distracting to the judges. Seconding nominations makes it harder for us to see new threads for other wikis.
C. Nominate as a registered user, not Anonymous. This well help us, the judges, contact you about the wiki you nominated, for whatever reason, in cases such as the site being private, when it is supposed to be public.

Section 2: Nominations

A. Number of categories.

Wikis may only be nominated in one category.

The only exception is if your wiki also qualifies for the Emerging Wiki category.

B. Do not second nominations.

Not only is it unneccessary to second nominations, it is also distracting to the judges. Seconding nominations makes it harder for us to see new threads for other wikis.

C. Nominate as a registered user, not Anonymous.

This well help us, the judges, contact you about the wiki you nominated, for whatever reason, in cases such as the site being private, when it is supposed to be public.

Section 3: Winning & Losing
A. Be a good sport. If you win, it is alright to brag, but don't flame other sites/users with your boasting. If you lose, don't whine and complain. It is unbecoming. Also, you should take your loss as a chance to improve your wikis for next year!
B. Winning does not disqualify you. If your wiki wins, you may still enter next year!

Section 3: Winning & Losing

A. Be a good sport.

If you win, it is alright to brag, but don't flame other sites/users with your boasting.
If you lose, don't whine and complain. It is unbecoming. Also, you should take your loss as a chance to improve your wikis for next year!

B. Winning does not disqualify you.

If your wiki wins, you may still enter next year!

Section 4: Voting
A. You may only vote once for Most Popular Wiki award and Most Popular Wiki of the Year Award. If the judge's determine that cheating is occuring in the polls, your wiki may be disqualified.

Section 4: Voting

A. You may only vote once for Most Popular Wiki award and Most Popular Wiki of the Year Award.

If the judge's determine that cheating is occuring in the polls, your wiki may be disqualified.

Section 5: Judges
A. Judges may not vote in a category if they are an active member in any of the nominated wikis.

Section 5: Judges

A. Judges may not vote in a category if they are an active member in any of the nominated wikis.

Hobby Hounds - 2013

Naru2008 — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:04:59 CDT

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Emerging - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:33:37 CDT

Note: Due to Wetpaint blocking the creation of new wikis, we are permitting wikis created between November 1, 2012 and January 17, 2013 in addition to any wikis created between the date site creation is possible, and September 1, 2013.

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Fans Gone Wild - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:13:50 CDT

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Top Contributors Club

CaptainSpaz — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:44:04 CDT

Want to know which Wetpaint members have contributed the most?

We feel these people should be recognized for putting so much of their time into working on the wikis, so this page will show those who have 50,000 or more total contributions across all of their wikis.

If you feel you should be on this page, please either leave a thread or PM a judge with a total/approximate count and links to at least three wikis you have the most contributions on as proof.

If you're in the table below, you can show the badge off on your profile! Make sure to add a link back to this page!
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Member	# of contributions
CaptainSpaz	Over 56,000
Crystalfrost	Over 125,000
-Sandshadow-	Over 51,000
Twitterpated	Over 51,000
gsrbritfan	Over 116,000
Erin_Amalgom	Over 71,000
Brackenleaf	Over 73,000

The 6th Annual Wetpaint Golden Paint Can Awards

CaptainSpaz — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:03:33 CST

Welcome to the site of the 6th Annual Wetpaint Golden Paint Can Awards!
We are so glad you have chosen to visit!
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What's New!
After listening to your comments and suggestions last year, we have finally decided to introduce several exciting changes for the upcoming awards!
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First, many users have complained that the same wikis win the community vote year after year. This year, we are renaming it to the Most Popular Wiki award, and it will now be no greater an achievement than the following new awards.
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The Judge's Choice has been split into six seperate awards:

Most Active Wiki
Most Original Wiki
Best Content

Most Organized Wiki
Best Staff
Best Wiki (Formerly Judge's Choice)

With the addition of so many new awards, more wikis can now be recognized!
Now that there are so many judges awards, your wikis may be under constant scrutiny at any time, so be sure to keep up the hard work on your wikis!
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To award wikis that have improved themselves over the past year, we are also introducing the Most Improved Wiki award!
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Furthermore, starting this year, more than 10 wikis will now be able to compete for the Most Popular Wiki, and Wiki of the Year awards.
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Also, as a special treat, we are introducing brand spanking new winner badges that will have the name of the winning wiki written on it!
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Finally, several of the categories have been removed or merged into other categories. For more details, head to this page.

At his request, the user Cryingdove would like his wikis to be excluded from the awards. Please do not nominate any of his wikis.

The Categories:

Education
Emerging
Fans Gone Wild
Hobby Hounds
Popular Media Role Play
Sports
Supernatural
Warrior Cats
Weird & Wonderful

Golden Paint Can Awards History
The Golden Paint Can Awards are currently in their 6th year!
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Check out the past awards, as well as the history of the awards, at History of the Golden Paint Can Awards!

Site Masthead provided by: Naruto87
Schedule:

10/01/13: Nominations close
12/01/13: Popular vote ends
12/31/13: Wiki of the Year vote ends

Meet the Judges
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Do you want to know how to get the judges to choose your wiki?
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If so, why not find out what the judges will be looking for here!

Top Contributors Club
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Do you want to be recognized for all of your contributions?
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If so, then have your name added to the list. Please note that you must have at least 50,000 contributions to be added.

More Information
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Have you been nominated for an award?
Then install a nominee badge on your site.
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Have you won? Then here are the prizes:

Custom "Award Winner" badges for your site.
Lifelong bragging rights.
Recognition and fame.
Winning, or being nominated, is a good way of advertising your wiki!

For more information on the rules, please visit Rules & Regulations.

Award Categories - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:42:19 CST

These are the categories for the 6th Annual Golden Paint Can Awards!

There have been many changes to the awards this year, and one of them is the changeup of the award categories. Gaming Gurus has been completely eliminated due to lack of nominations in the past. All of the TV categories, as well as the Movie and Anime categories, have been merged into one new category named Popular Media. Education 2.0 and Civic Superstars have also been merged into one simple Education category. Finally, the Character and Mating, Dating, and Relating categories have been merged into Fans Gone Wild. With these changes, there are now only ten categories:

Education	Role Play
Emerging	Sports
Fans Gone Wild	Supernatural
Hobby Hounds	Warrior Cats
Popular Media	Weird & Wonderful

Weird & Wonderful - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:41:21 CST

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Supernatural - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:37:33 CST

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Sports - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:36:26 CST

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Popular Media - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:34:08 CST

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Education - 2013

CaptainSpaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:23:28 CST

The awards

These are the awards you can win this year:

Most Active Wiki	Most Original Wiki	Best Content

Most Organized Wiki	Best Staff	Most Improved


	Most Popular Wiki


	Best Wiki

After the judges have selected their choices, the winners of each will move on to go against the winners of the other nine categories for the Category of the Year awards.

List of nominees

(This section will house the mastheads of each wiki nominated in the threads below.)

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Other categories

Education	Emerging	Fans Gone Wild	Hobby Hounds	Popular Media
Role Play	Sports	Supernatural	Warrior Cats	Weird & Wonderful

Golden Paint Can Awards History

CaptainSpaz — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:38:36 CST

The Beginning

1st Annual Golden Paint Can Awards

The Golden Paint Can Awards got started in 2008 as a way for Wetpaint to award wikis that performed exceptionally well. While they already had the 500 list at the time, this was a way to actually award wikis for their good organization and awesomeness, rather than their level of activity.

The first year, Wetpaint employees searched for wikis using a computer algorithm, Wetpaint employee input, and of course, community nominations from over 1 Million wikis!

This first year laid the groundwork for the awards which would last another five years, by introducing the Community vote and the Judge's Choice. This year also had the Stats Awards, a series of stats that rated user activity, site activity, and how many photos or messages were sent on a wiki.

2nd Annual Golden Paint Can Awards

After the first year, Wetpaint collected tons of feedback and finally formed the awards into what most people now remember it as. Many people commented on the categories that should be included, and this year introduced 15 categories most people now are used to, including a new Anime category, as well as a Sports category.

This year, they searched the same way as the first year, but through more than 1.5 Million wikis!

Wetpaint's departure

3rd Annual Golden Paint Can Awards

It was after the 2nd Annual awards that Wetpaint began working on their new entertainment platform and, as a result, they abandoned the Golden Paint Can Awards in 2010. In August of 2010, CaptainSpaz, one of the Wetpaint Central Community Moderators, petitioned Wetpaint to take over the defunt awards and his petition was finally granted in September of the same year.

Unfortunately, September left very little time for him to work with, so he had mere days to form a team of judges from Wetpaint Central and then start accepting nominations. As such, with the small amount of time, nothing changed with the overall format of the awards, or their categories. CaptainSpaz experimented by removing the Education 2.0 category, and adding several new TV categories.

In addition, the new judges, without the access to Wetpaint's servers, had to rely solely on nominations from users to choose between wikis.

Despite the changes, and the small time frame, this year's awards were still a huge success!

4th Annual Golden Paint Can Awards

After the success of the 3rd Annual Awards, despite Wetpaint's departure and the short time frame, CaptainSpaz decided to spend the hiatus planning new things for the awards.

Some of the new things included the creation of the Emerging Wiki category, a revolutionary category designed solely for wikis created 30 days before nominations opened and 30 days before nominations closed. This allowed brand new wikis a chance for fame and glory as well. He also created the Character and Movie Categories, and brought back the Education 2.0 category as well.

Another new award to win this year was the Wiki of the Year Award, which pitted the winners from each category in Judge's Choice and the Community votes against one another to determine the best of the best.

Finally, this year a new Golden Paint Can was designed by judge Maxwilly.

This year was also fairly successful, however, people complained that the voting period was too long, and that nominations were too short.

5th Annual Golden Paint Can Awards

This year, after learning the scheduling mistakes from the previous years, CaptainSpaz extended the nominations period, and shortened the voting period to a month and a half, with a full month for Wiki of the Year voting. He also introduced the Wetpainter of the Year Award to award members who performed admirably.

In addition, this year more judges were selected to help with the Judge's Choice selections.

None of the categories changed from the previous year, although a severe lack of nominations in multiple categories led to the end result of only nine categories being used.

Another problem cropped up near the end, with the Vizu polling system shutting down permanently, so the awards were forced to end two weeks early.

Earlier in these awards, users began to complain of flaws in the way the awards were run, and several wikis dropped out in protest.

Golden Paint Can Awards 2.0

6th Annual Golden Paint Can Awards

After listening to the complaints and suggestions of the previous year, CaptainSpaz immediately began to rethink the way the awards would be run. He started by removing several judges for their lack of participation, and then instituting more lines of communication between the remaining judges. Furthermore, he decided to fix the fundamental flaws in the awards by doing several things:

De-prioritizing the Community vote by renaming it Most Popular Wiki.
Splitting the Judge's Choice into six seperate categories that rate wikis on individual characteristics, rather than a host of things.

Also, a new Most Improved Wiki category was added to award wikis that improved themselves from the previous years.
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It is hoped that this change will allow more wikis to gain fame and recognition by having more awards to win. In addition to the new award categories, the nomination categories were also changed. Instead of having more categories, the judges decided to have less, so the 20 categories were thinned down to 10. While many of the categories were merged into others, Gaming Gurus was removed due to the lack of nominations over the past few years.
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Finally, with the change of format, more wikis can now be selected, so the nomination period was doubled in length this year. With all the changes already made, and yet to come, this is the biggest change to the format of the awards to date.

Nominee Badges

CaptainSpaz — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:18:29 CST

All badges are in alphabetical order. This includes the golden Wiki of the Year Nominee Badge.

Badges created by: naruto87

Nominated for a Golden Paint Can Award?

Add one of the "Nominee", aka "Golden Paint Brush", badges to your site's homepage!

Be sure to link back to the page of the category where your site is nominated so that fans can vote!

For a complete list of category links, click here.

(Do not use this badge, it is an example)

The 6th Annual Golden Paint Can Awards

CaptainSpaz — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:39:27 CST

Everything you knew about the awards is about to change...

Schedule
Nominations will open on March 1, 2013 and will run through October 1, 2013. Popular vote will run from October 1, 2013 through December 1, 2013. Popular vote for Wiki of the Year will run from December 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013.
There will be no Wetpainter of the Year for 2013.

Categories
Due to lack of nominations in the past, the Gaming Gurus category has been eliminated. Also, due to the similiarities in the two, Mating, Dating, & Relating has also been eliminated in favor of Fans Gone Wild. Furthermore, Civic Superstars has been merged into Education, and Movie, TV, and Anime have been merged to form Popular Media.

This table should help you determine which categories to nominate your wikis in:

You should nominate your wiki for Education if you were a Civic Superstar before.

You should nominate your wiki for Fans Gone Wild if you were:

Character
Mating, Dating, & Relating

You should nominate your wiki for Popular Media if you were:

Any of the previous TV categories
Movie
Anime

Awards
The Community vote is going to be considerably less important, as the polls themselves are usually flawed in that they always reflect the site with the most users rather than the site which is actually the best. Therefore, the Community vote will now be referred to as Most Popular Wiki award and will be equal in importance to the following, new awards.

There has hardly been a way to award wikis that have learned from their failures in previous awards before, but no longer. This year, we are introducing the Most Improved Wiki award. This award, which is judge's choice, awards wikis that have competed in previous awards by determining whether they have improved their content, activity, and organization. For obvious reasons, this award is not available to Emerging Wikis.

Before, Judge's Choice was selected based on sites that displayed good originality, high level of activity, and a high level of organization. However, there were some sites that displayed each of those characteristics more than the others. As a result of this flaw, Judge's Choice has been split into six seperate awards:

Most Active Not just a one-man-show Not just one or two people posting small things on a single thread to bump their activity rating. Or, one person making multiple small edits to a page for the same purpose. Lots of unique members posting meaningful content to pages/threads Sites will be visited randomly five times, three times each day, to determine this category, in order to be fair to other wikis
Most Original Unique homepage design Unique thread activities Unique site activites Unique content	Best Content Sites with large amounts of content relevant to the wiki The go-to site for said material	Most Organized Wikis that have well-structured staffs Well designed and easy-to-read homepage/directory
Best Staff Large amount of active staff members Staff members making meaningful contributions Good staff/community interaction	Best Wiki (Formerly Judge's Choice) How the above mix together to make a wiki truly come out on top

Also, due to the changes, now more than 10 wikis will be able to participate, not just the most active, so everyone will have a chance!

So, to sum things up, these are the awards you can win this year:

Most Popular Wiki
Most Improved Wiki
Most Active Wiki
Most Original Wiki

Best Content
Best Staff
Most Organized Wiki
Best Wiki (Formerly Judge's Choice)

If anyone has any ideas for more Judge's categories, please leave a message in the form of a thread on this page.

Meet the Judges

CaptainSpaz — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:37:04 CST

Meet the people who will be choosing the nominations and Judge's Choice Awards for 2013! We all have different things we like to look for in a wiki, so look here to see what you should work on to get your wiki noticed.-

Head Judges

Head Judge: CaptainSpaz

Deputy Head Judge: Naru2008

Bio: Over 55,000 total Wetpaint Contributions on over 10 wikis. Wetpainting for over five years. Graduated with an A.A in Liberal Arts from West Valley College in 2009 and Graduated with a B.S in Justice Studies from San Jose State University in 2012.

What I am looking for: Well-designed and organized homepage More than one member contributing Reasonable amount of meaningful activity Professional looking material Good community/structure	My tools of the trade: Firefox nightly IE 10 Paint.net Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 Vuze
Time zone: PDT; GMT -8

Bio: Currently a Senior in high school. Been Wetpainting for close over 4 years. Has made over 22,000 contributions on Wetpaint and is currently registered on over 40 Wetpaint Wikis. Is currently a Wetpaint Community Administrator on Wetpaint Central, and has been a Community staff member for over 2 years now. Also the Liaison for Wikis by Wetpaint and Wetpaint.Inc.

What I am looking for in the wikis:

Original Content
Dedicated Members
Hard-Working Staff
A good, active, and friendly community
No 'one-woman show' (so to speak)

Tools I use on a daily basis:

Firefox 15.0.1
uTorrent
Spotify
SuperRAM 6
DAEMON Tools Pro
WinRar
Advanced SystemCare 6

Support Judges

(Naruto87)

Bio: I am a High School student and have been on wetpaint for almost 4 years from September 29 to now. I been all around wetpaint I been active many sites and owner of many as well. I have over took control as owner of many inactive sites and made them active as well. I am a Former Wetpaint Community Moderator and now am a Wetpaint Community Writer and been judge for 2 years. I am a Web and Graphic Designer and have almost over 30,0000 contributions on Wetpaint.

What I will be looking for?

I looked for is focusing content on what's your wiki is mostly about.
Influencing and attracting welcoming message with steps when newcomers join
Hard/Love/Helpful Staff
Good Content Info and with good grammar. ( IF COULD DO SO.)
Manmade Original Content, and great manmade images/graphics
Good loving Community that spend their time in their wiki,staff, and users
.ANTI-FREE SPAMMING (On threads, pages, and users profiles.)

Tools I Use

Paint.net
Gimp
Firefox
Internet Explorer 10
Microsoft Security Essentials
Google Chrome

Windows 8

Designer for the masthead and badges
(Maxwilly "ANARCHY")

Bio: Mostly ex-Wetpaint member who has spent the last two and a half years learning web design and application development. I now run Glimmer Studios (website coming soon) and perform web design as a paid service. I also have a series of applications, one of which is a web browser by the name of Serum.

Ex-Wetpaint Central moderator, WPAds writer and active Golden Paint Cans judge (second year running).

During my two years on Wetpaint, I have learned the platform top to bottom. Combine that with my experience as a freelance graphics, application and web designer, and you have a judge who knows exactly what to look for when analysing a website.

What I am looking for:

A professional logo
Fluent, intuitive and friendly layouts & formatting
Subtle, fixed colour scheme
Up-to-date content
Active, friendly and spam-free community
Carefully selected staff who know what they're doing
An amazing first impression (banner, home page, welcome message)

(walrusworldstudios)

Bio: Currently a senior in High School, Captain of the Cross-Country team, and one of the Varsity Track and Field runners at his high school. A Superpainter who's used Wetpaint for over five years. He has worked on various websites as an administrator. Most commonly associated with Warrior Cat Clans 2 Classic, Wetpaint Promotional Advertising, and American Idol Fan Wiki. He is currently a Golden Paint Can Awards Support Judge and an administrator on Wetpaint Central. He has over 35,000 overall contributions on Wetpaint. He won a very close race with CryingDove for Wetpainter of the Year. He hopes to attend Boston College as a member of the Class of 2017.

What I am looking for:

Page Design (Page design is neat and organized. Flow of the design is key.)
Hardworking Staff (Staff Members are dedicated to improving the site.)
Initial Reaction (Site should be original and creative at first glance.)
Strong Community (Members are respectful, welcoming and support the site.)

Award Categories - 2012

CaptainSpaz — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:49:53 CST

These are wikis nominated, chosen, and voted for by the people of Wetpaint.
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Wiki of the Year

Please leave a thread on this page if you would like a new topic added to the awards.

Award Winners - 2012

CaptainSpaz — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:49:26 CST

Wiki of the Year
Community Voted
Judge's Choice

CONGRATULATIONS ONE AND ALL!
Did your site win? Grab a winner badge!


Community Voted & Judges' Choice

Character
Community Voted	Judges' Choice



Community Voted & Judge's Choice

Emerging Wiki
Community Voted & Judge's Choice


Community Voted	Judges' Choice


Community Voted	Judges' Choice


Community Voted	Judges' Choice


Community Voted & Judges' Choice


Community Voted	Judges' Choice

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