User blog comment:Bigrika/This Wiki has a problem.../@comment-11163511-20180119145117/@comment-33964026-20180119161212

Hey Madam, first like a side note, is Madam what we should call you or do you have like an online nickname or something, or is that Madam..essentially what should we call you? Sorry for my ignorance ;P.

This is the situation as I see it. There are very few of us users that are here and are active. I just want to clarify a few points that honestly I personally believe will help us in the long run.

I am not challenging your authority, I want to be clear on that, I am not. I am glad to know that Administration is listening to our concerns.

All the aplicants share one thing in common: we all want to grow the wiki and to make it active again. I have said this even in the first days which I joined, for reference you can go to my message wall down to the first messgae the 'welcome' message which was sent to me my a Wiki emplyee person, no not one of our administrators a wiki employee, or bot, whichever. I am dedicated to growing the site, I am active everyday and many others are as well. I am not saying that I should be an admin, I am not complaining, just trying to state facts. The truth is, as a 16-year-old straight guy, I probobly have more important places that I should be spending my time. But I like this concept, I have always liked the concept, and with many workers, I believe we can all get the job done as soon as possible.

This is not about just getting one, or two new admins, this is about restoring the wiki. I am dedicated to that, whether I have admin rights or not.

My next thought is about admin activity: that is great that people make visits to the wiki and do not change anything, but how often are these visits? Many of the applications talked about being here literally everyday or everyother day, and when we are trying to rebuild something: activity and a high level of activity is needed for this to happen. Madam: Your original blog post essentially said, 'this is the start of the new year, we have alot to do, lets try to get it done" (im paraphrasing).  But why on earth would you choose two users (though they did have the qualifications) when other users are more active? Activity was one of your criteria for the applications.

My other idea, which really was shut down by some users on the application blog, is if we all have jobs as admins. Lets be honest, this is a big job, it would be a big job for one admin, but is still a big job for three admins. If we all have jobs or leadership roles, which we all deserve becasue we are willing to invest the time and effort into the wiki, the whole project will be done so much faster. Then after the project is done, we can start advirtizing the wiki, start trying to draw new users in. Now I know what you all are going to say, I would be weird if all the main users on here all the sudden got admin rights, (and), we only need enough admins as there are users. Both of these are not adequate reasons though. With more admins the work will be spread thin, and if everyone is doing their part then it will all get done so much quicker then just three admins working on it. I really think this is nessesary especially becasue we are all willing to invest in the wiki.

What is going to happen after 'your' (and i am using your purposly) cleanup is finished? Is everything going to return to normal, or will it be you three admins controlling everything? I am not trying to be sarcastic, I am legidimatly wondering! :D If all who applied were given admin rights and all had different 'main' roles on the wiki, the work would be done so much faster, we would be able to start accumulating more users as well.

Next I want to talk about the voting issue. Madam: you said that the wiki votes essentially are too hard to run sometimes and that they are not accurate, here is the issue. No body ever said you have to make a voting system with the wiki pre-made system. Get creative! :D I have seen on many other wiki's when they have votes (which is literally for everything becasue they are a democracy and the admins do what the users want, also where the admins are ellected by the users) the votes are very simple, some do look very unproffesional, but if it gets the job done then there is no reason to not do this: I would point you to the Camp Half-Blood Roleplaying Wiki, you can find the link on my profile page, take a look at how they do voting, It works and it is simple and easy to vote and have the votes counted.

I can see this whole situation blowing up in all of our faces into a huge fight, I can't speak for everyone else, but that is NOT what I want, all it will do it divide us more, create more animocity, and could even split apart the wiki. One user has already left because of all of this. Admins: I am sure you will do a great job with your new appointed positions, but the new admins at least should have been voted on, not just chosen by you, Madam. You are the lead admin I guess, but we are the users and we should be able to pick who is in leadership.

You also said that you gave a place for feedback and stuff then you were like I didn't see any feedback. I know for fact that I have given feedback about what I think the wiki might need, especially to grow the wiki (i.e. social media) we just have to advirtize and get the word out there. Maybe even try to become affilitaed with MonsterHigh themselves.

I am dedicated to the cause, I am willing to put in effort (even if I do not have admin rights), I have been adimate about all of this since day one. We need to be united, and not have a comunistic authority, the users of this wiki shuold have had a say in who the new admins were.

Thanks, again this isn't personally against any of you, just a few concerns that I have,

-London