Forum:AR:Adoption request for My Monster Rancher Wiki

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What is your username?

Isfan

Please link to the wiki here:

http://mymonsterrancher.wikia.com/wiki/My_Monster_Rancher_Wiki

How many edits have you made on that wiki?

173 edits, growing per day.

(EDIT: 893 edits, growing per day.)

How many days/months have you been editing there?

6, this request is 24 hours premature (See Below, final paragraph)

(EDIT: 9 days now.)

On the Special Pages -> Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? Tiakall, 17:30 on June 25, 2012 Last logon: 23:09 on June 27, 2012

http://mymonsterrancher.wikia.com/wiki/Special:ListUsers

Any other information:

EDIT: (Rewriting since so may new hours of work have been added, and the game has changed a bit, original Other Information section included at bottom, but is rather rambly.)

This is a Game App for mobile devices; first released on the Android market and more recently to the iPhone app store.

There are now 275 monsters in game. Two more were just released today. Of these, 241 are released which Ranchers can obtain. There are so many monsters no one has gone through making entries for them all on the Wiki, or even gotten close. Taking pictures of monsters is also a difficult task for Droid phones, as most processes require the phone to be rooted or to pay for an app that does a mediocre job, and the process for setting up an unrooted phone to take screenshots with freeware is a very long and difficult process.

Because of the large number of half-hearted attempts at supporting the Wiki, many pages for specific monsters did not even exist. Of the ones that had been created, most of those were identical to the template with no infomation added at all, not even the name of the monster had been put in. In addition, the format of each entry that had any info added to it varied greatly, almost conflicting with each other. Overall, the Wiki had been all but abandoned.

This was the state of the Wiki as I found it 9 days ago.
Since then, I've almost completely turned the Wiki around. Starting with little experience or familiarity with Wikia, I have gone through and learned much of its workings through at least dozens of hours of work. After much edit, backtracking, assimilation, and comparisons, a standard format for each Monster entry was developed. With this form I have gone through and editted/created 170 of the 241 Monster Entries (70%). I'd say at most 15 had been completed by all previous editors; primarily Tiakall, the absent Admin. Most of the ones that remain for me to do have pages that do not exist; no one before has ever gotten to them.

I have contacted the most recently active user who has a registered account, and learned that she does not have much time to help collaborate. The Wiki really is my own project at this time. I keep a blog where I record my progress, news, concerns.. it's half a development log, half diary. I've gone through the process of getting screenshots from my phone, and have images for all the monsters in game (save for two I need to add to my Monster Wiki in-game).

Extensive research has lead me to other sites with partial information concerning the game. (Every project to document this in full has eventually died out.) These other sites have become another source of information for me. I'm a well experienced player in game who maintains contact with other players outside the game. Once pages have been made for all available monsters, I will encourage users to visit the Wiki and add to it. Doing so before every page has been created and set up would discourage visitors, in my opinion. I already have a number of top-tier breeders watching my progress and encouraging me.

There are other things I would like to change about the Wiki to make it flow better and be more user friendly. Some of the navigation I feel needs to change, and there are obsolete pages I wish to delete.

I spend hours per day on this Wiki, trying to get it set up enough to invite users to come an add to it. And as soon as I am done with this edit to my Adoption Request, I'll being going right back to edit it more. Lots of new information coming out about the new rares in this new event. I'll be trying to document as much as I can.

Old Other Information
There are almost 275 total monsters (273), of which 241 are currently released for Ranchers to obtain and raise. Of these 241, I have 239 documented in my ingame Monster Wiki. The last two I'll have soon, they are just breeds of Garu. I placed Rank 6 in the recent week-long event: Prizes were awarded to the top 300 Ranchers, backgrounds to the top 200, and the Tier-1 Prize was awarded to the Top 20 Rancher. I have contacts with other Ranchers, and am constantly in-the-know. Any information I have that I am uncertain of, I can check with other Ranchers of the game to verify before adding to the Wikia, many of which are also top-ranked Breeders.

This Wikia had almost nothing on it when I started. It has all the 241 known listed, but that is about it. Not all of them had pages, and more than half of the ones that do have pages didn't have any content added to them (they were copy-pasted templates that looked identical with each other). A very few select monsters were given attention, recieving details and pictures, before the original Admins dropped their interest.

I have picked up this Wikia and am adding to it religiously. I've developed a format for the entries of Specific Breeds and for Monster Families. I'm adding in Initial Stats, descriptions, how to obtain, Trivia, and more. I just completed a very unpleasant process to be able to obtain screenshots of the game on my phone just to be able to add these images into the Wikia. All 239 monsters available to me have been screenshotted. I've contacted users to start taking notes of the Trianing Confidences of their active monsters plus favorite foods; Both can only be checked while a Monster is active on your ranch, it cannot be checked in the Academy nor the in-game Monster Wiki. Favorite/Hated foods can vary, but generally have two options, one being common and the other uncommon. I've formatted, expanded, added, editted, corrected, and otherwise made the entire Adventures section presentable. I've gone through at least 53 of the 241 available monsters, but much of my delay on progressing is backtracking as I return to correct or change things so that all the entries are the same as each other. I will continue on until all 241 are complete.

I have a livestream channel which gets 10's of 1000's of viewer minutes per week (7 days per week = 10,080 minutes per week.) People from the MMR game and other games I've played join there to watch, and there is much encouragement for me to finish this project through to the end.

I've researched the most recently active editor with a registered account on this wikia, sent her a message and got her added in-game. Hopefully some collaboration with this can be formed, however her edits were made 7 days ago, so the benefits of this are uncertain. 6 days ago "A Wikia Contributor" last added to the Wikia.

However, certain things are bothering me. Not being able to delete misnamed or redundant pages is rather troubling. Also, not being able to rename or delete a misnamed image is most unsettling, especially since I cannot upload the same image with the correct name (the quick-fix I use for pages that deserve to be deleted.)

I do understand that this request is made 24 hours early. However, I will doubtfully have anything to add to this request within the next 24 hours, except to augment the number of entries I've managed to update/complete and the number of total edits I would have made. It is my hope that this request be allowed to sit for 24 hours to get to the minimum 7-day period before being addressed. If it is truly problematic that this request was made a day early, I will gladly resubmit this request (modified) when the proper date has arrived.


 * Hi. Your contributions look great.  I can see all of the hours of work you have put into the wiki, and I am sorry it took so long to answer your adoption request.  I have given you admin and bureaucrat rights.  Good luck with the wiki! -- Wendy  (talk ) 03:39, October 20, 2012 (UTC)