I’d like to take a moment to congratulate Mahaloian @Gno for winning the first Weekend Update contest, the contest designed to encourage and highlight updates made on Mahalo pages. @Gno got 8.5 out of a possible 10 points for the updates made on her How to Play Monopoly page.

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In this first edition, the updates I was looking for; was for Mahaloians to add two featured objects to their “How-To” pages – one video and one image. One of the most common errors that eliminated many of the competitors was that they forgot to add an image, reading rules is key.

18 different Mahaloians nominated their updates for the grand prize, I had no judging template until the day of judging came, I decided I would simply create a checklist. On the checklist I checked to see if users followed the rules, that was an instant 4 points, 3 points were rewarded based on my judging of the quality of the updates and lastly 3 extra points were awarded if the user went “above and beyond” what was asked in the contest description. All the judging categories were decided prior to me looking at any of the entrants.

In the end, I believe this first edition went off without many problems, the biggest problem was perhaps the judging took a little bit longer then I had intended