User blog comment:Madame O'Front/*IMPORTANT* Admin recruitment and Feedback needed!/@comment-26874253-20180101233203

Well, I guess I'll throw my hat into the ring and see where this goes.

As a little introduction about myself, I'm Jade/Vanessa and I'm a 22 year-old currently in my third year of the registered nursing program and I joined the wiki back in October 2015, so I remember a bit about what it was like here back when there was a little more activity. I would really love to be a part of helping clean this place up and make it more organized and user-friendly. It would be such a big job and I'd be happy to do what I could to help.

How active are you?: It may not really look like I'm around a lot since I've only got one character to update every once in a while, but I do check out the wiki activity multiple times a day and when the rare group RP pops up, I tend to get involved in those, if at all possible.

What contribututions have you made to the wiki?: I can't say that I've been involved in creating things like templates or rule blogs or anything like that on the wiki before, but I have helped others with creating artworks in the past or in giving help and advice for some characters. On other wikis, when there are events or challenges going on, I always try to get involved in those since it's always nice to see a bit more activity that way, and I think it'd be fun to bring those sorts of things to this wiki as well once things have been cleaned up a bit. When that has happened, I certainly think it will be much easier to make contributions that will make the wiki a much more fun and interactive place to be.

What would you do if given the job?: Firstly, I would really love to help in the cleanup process, in terms of oragnizing catagories and ridding us of those that are not needed or redundant. I think that would be a major step forward in making this place easier to navigate for new or returning users. I would also really like to help with tackling the problems around posting doll-maker or other inappropriate pictures and in helping to ensure that the characters being posted do fit in with the monster universe and are not from other series that do not really make sense for them to be here. I would also like to help with developping a clear and consise set of rules for everyone to follow. I think that would be the most important thing to get this wiki back into smooth-running order. Without clear rules, problems are always likely to pop up again.

Also, once the cleanup is finished, I would love to be a part of helping bring the Monster of the Month contest back to life, and potentially starting a Ship of the Month one as well. I think competitions like those are a great way to bring the community together and bring attention to lots of special characters. I think it would also be fun to bring in some art/writing challenges or collaborations for the community to work on together. Those have always been lots of fun on other wikis, and they'd be nice to see around here as well.

Are you comfortable being messaged by other users should they have any inquiries?: Oh, most definitely. In fact, ever since joining this and other wikis, I do already get messaged on my various pages for character advice or for general questions from friends, so I would have no problem in helping others out! I'm always happy to be of service. In nursing, a big part of our job is learning how to educate others in helping them to decide what is best for them and helping them to make the best choices possible through education. I think those skills could be applied here in helping educate people about the rules so they can make good choices for themselves on the wiki and help them have the best online experiences possible.

Any experience with a smiliar job?: Unfortunately, I've never had the chance to do much in the field of being an administrator online, but I would certainly love to be given the chance to learn to do so. I don't know if this really counts, but in nursing, we have classes called "seminars" in which the teacher takes no role and we have to run the class ourselves and figure out what we need to know, what we need others to know, and how to become leaders within a group. After three years now of learning these skills in a physical group, I think they may come in handy in an online world as well in terms of deciding what is most important for group members to be aware of and in taking on a leadership role.

Do you know a bit about coding?: I am, actually. I took a couple of classes in coding back in high school, and though it's been a while, I think with a little bit of research, I'd be able to pick it back up again fairly easily. If there's one thing I've learned in nursing, it's how to do research to teach myself things. I think I'd be able to handle figuring out how to change layouts on the main page and create templates and such fairly quickly if I put my mind to it.

It would truly be an honour and a wonderful learning experience if I were to be chosen to help out with the admins, but even if not, I'd still love to be involved in helping remake the wiki into the best version of itself, so just let me know if there is ever anything I can do to help!