Walkazo
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“I have no quote. Mwa ha ha ha!”
—Walkazo
Walkazo is a Sysop (21 January 2009) of the Super Mario Wiki, and a former Bureaucrat of Userpedia. She joined in the summer of 2007 with her younger brother Pantaro Paratroopa, who has since retired from the Wiki. While her scholarly pursuits take up much of her time, Walkazo manages to edit on a day-to-day basis and participate in Wiki policy making (most notably voting on proposals, which she has done ever since joining the community). Walkazo is known for her intelligence and for being kind yet strict; she is most notable for being the first female Sysop in the extended MarioWikidom, achieving said rank on Userpedia in the spring of 2008. Userpedia crashed shortly after she was promoted to Bureaucrat that September, and due to a combination of computer and time limitations, Walkazo never returned to Userpedia, and now focuses solely on the Super Mario Wiki and her administrative duties there.
Her avatar is a female Dragon Koopa with red eyes, green scales and shell, and blue hair. In Real Life she is a teenage University student living in Toronto, Canada.
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History
Walkazo's path to Super Mario Wiki is a long and convoluted tale. In 2005 she wrote a story based on a sci-fi series for a school project. That summer she posted it on the Internet and started reading other fanfiction, eventually stumbling upon Mario fiction. Intrigued by the mysteries of the Marioverse, Walkazo decided to learn all she could about it in order to write her own accurate fanfiction. Her research swiftly led her to Super Mario Wiki, which she used for months on a regular basis as a guest. However, two years after her journey began, Walkazo got fed up with reading bad grammar on the Wiki and joined so she could edit all the typos, comma splices, and run-on sentences she came across.
She soon found her way onto Userpedia and its forums, and to her immense surprise, was asked to be a Sysop there less than a year after her joining. She gladly accepted the position and endeavored to prove her worth by patrolling and editing as many articles as possible, soon earning a second promotion. However, Scribblewiki crashed mere days after Walkazo became a Bureaucrat, and she chose to not join any of the new Userpedias because of schoolwork. She planned to join once her work load became lighter, but when is became apparent that Userpedia would permanently move to Wikia, Walkazo announced that she would no longer serve as an administrator, as her computer cannot run Wikia.
Upset that there would be no proof that she was promoted, Walkazo asked Stooben Rooben if he would promote her if she joined the inactive Userpedia Referata so she would be able to reference the site in her Real Life resumé. She soon became involved with cleaning up articles around U-Referata, as it was much easier to find things to edit there than on the Mario Wiki. Then, when Master Crash asked about the possibility of having both Wikis active, Walkazo suggested making U-Referata solely dedicated to factual information, as there was no feasible way the fanon could be recreated on the inactive Userpedia, nor would it be possible for both to be fully active. She felt it was the only way to make U-Referata presentable and though other Sysops agreed, the decision was very unpopular community at large, earning Walkazo much resentment from the other users.
However, U-Referata did not last long anyway. Only a few users remained with Walkazo to clean up the pages, and soon even she abandoned the project. Then, when Maria and Jaime hacked Stooben Rooben's accounts, U-Referata was lost to the trolls. But this did not bother Walkazo, as she had shifted her entire focus back to the Super Mario Wiki, and was promoted for her hard work in early 2009. She later joined the Super Mario Wiki forums, and was forced to abandon the Userpedia forums when they upgraded and became incompatible with her computer. Because of this and her time-consuming education programs in Real Life, Walkazo decided to officially resign from Userpedia that summer.
Walkazo's first an only foray onto Chat also occurred in 2009. While Walkazo's computer can't run Chat, her brother's laptop can, and once when PP was on Chat, Walkazo was asked to come online as well. No one believed it was her, however, and she soon left. Her brother retired from the community shortly after, and Walkazo has not found the time to come onto Chat herself.
Personality
Walkazo is intelligent and stubborn, and will often get into heated debates over Wiki policies and Mario in general (she is a huge fan of Bowser and jokes about how "evil" Mario is for what he does to the Koopas). In Real Life she is aspiring to become a ornithologist (a person who studies birds), and often applies her scientific knowledge to the Mario series, going so far as to designing an evolutionary map of all the Koopa species, her own species (which she has dubbed "Dragon Koopas") included. While she is quite antisocial in Real Life, Walkazo tries to be outgoing, friendly and helpful around the Wiki, though many still consider her to be too strict and pessimistic.
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 Walkazo in a manga-esque style, drawn by herself. |
Trivia
- She is currently the only Female Sysop.
- She is the first female Sysop in the extended MarioWikidom, and only the second female Sysop on the Super Mario Wiki (after Grapes).
- She is also the only female to be appointed Bureaucrat in the extended Mario Wikidom.
- Walkazo and her brother both took their names from their pet lizards (Veiled and Panther Chameleons, respectively). Ironically, Walkazo was the one who came up with "Pantaro" while PP named his chameleon "Walkazo". Neither sibling can remember how PP came up with the name nor what it means; Walkazo chose it as her username because of its uniqueness.
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| Walkazo | Stooben Rooben | Super Mario Bros. | Ultima Bahamut | Super Mario Bros. | Marioguy1 | Super Mario Bros. | Ralphfan |
| Sub-director of The Disconnected |
| Super Mario Bros. | Marioguy1 | Super Mario Bros. | Marioguy1 |
| Editor-In-Chief of The Disconnected |
| Nega-Mario | Hemu |
| Fake News Director |
| Koopa-Paratroopa | Hemu | Position abolished |
| Fun Stuff Director |
| Marioguy1 | Ralphfan | Tehchomps | Stooben Rooben | Position abolished |
| Music & Artwork Director |
| Super Luigi! Number one! | Position abolished |
| Entertainment Section Director |
| Hemu | Ralphfan | Position abolished |
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