Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4146635-20140926145922

Hello everyone, wiki users and Austin & Ally fans! This past summer, we held our annual summer events which took us to things we haven't necessarily done before. Many users participated and we had a good turn out. As summer comes to a close and we head into the great fall season, I want to thank everyone for the great summer we had. The summer started with a survey we asked everyone to take that would help us plan our summer on the wiki. The survey was well responded to and we (the admins) planned as according to it.

The Austin & Ally Fanfiction Contest was our biggest event and it went very well. All of the stories were fantastic and a lot of people read the fanfictions, even when they were long. We got a lot of votes for each round and I really appreciate you taking time to participate. I also really appreciate the participants in the actual contest for being so compliant to dates and times, posting your chapters on time, and for accepting your elimination when you were eliminated from the contest. The overall contest went very well and it couldn't have been done without you all.

Additionally, we held our second Summer Day Specials, daily activities for users to participate in. Although a few days were missed and we didn't stay completely on top of the schedule, the Summer Day Specials were a fun success and I thank everyone for participating in them. A big Summer Day Special we had was the Out of this World Weekend Scavenger Hunt where users could go around the wiki to find stars and get points. Many users wanted a scavenger hunt and that was a pretty fun one so thanks for taking part if you did!

We also planned chat parties for each new episode of the summer. Now this only really happened twice in the entire summer. :P Sorry for not staying on top of that but to be fair, the turn out for the two chat sessions we had were not so great, population 1 or 2, so I doubt anyone really missed them. However, we did have a Wiki Prom in honor of the two special prom episodes and that was a huge success. We had a special interface in chat for prom, a prom music playlist, some users decorated their profiles with a prom theme in honor of it, and we crowned a prom king, queen, prince and princess. Somewhere around 20 users were in chat and we had a very good time.

Lastly we had our Twitter Time event planned where every Saturday on our wiki Twitter, we'd ask A&A trivia questions and right answerers would get a follow. Thanks to everyone with a Twitter account who participated! Our Fan Art Contest (which counted as a Summer Day Special) rounded out our summer events and that went well as well, thank you to everyone who participated.

Overall, thank you to everyone for a good summer. I just wanted to recap it all and show my thanks. I hope you enjoyed the events. Have fun on the wiki! :)

- Austin & Ally Wiki Staff  