Thread:CzechOut/@comment-4189499-20131104070616/@comment-188432-20131104205917

Relax. It's just a Spotlight. I had to reload the page 23 times before I even saw the Spotlight. I can confirm that by some miracle you've got it linked to the blog page you desired. Your polls haven't even generated 10 users yet. You actually had better edit stats the week prior to the spotlight going live than you had this week.

I'm not trying to rain on your parade. I'm just concerned that it sounds like you damaged your equipment in frustration, and I think it's important to help you take a breath and look at things realistically. There is no evidence that the spotlight has driven any editing on the site; in fact the past week has been underwhelming. Spotlights simply aren't worth a single ounce of anger.

Now, onto other matters:

You mention in the blog that that the post has not been completed, but you've not left behind clear instructions how you'd like it continued. I'm happy to add more text, but I don't know what you want added. You also said you wanted to make the wiki "spotlight ready", but Wendy wouldn't have approved had the wiki not met the incredibly low threshold for spotlights. If you give me a better idea what you mean by this, I'll put as much of my shoulder to the plough as I can spare at the moment.

Also, even though the actual value of a spotlight is hard to pin down, I nevertheless have a responsibility as an admin at Tardis to at least put in a request for Tardis, which I have done. It's tricky because as an admin at both places I have an interest in both requests succeeding. But one outcome is obviously that Wendy might not grant a month long spotlight for DWA. Indeed I've never seen such a thing. And the least desirable outcome is that there's no DW-themed spotlight at all during the 50th anniversary. So naturally I have to request a spotlight for Tardis.

Please do not take this move as undermining you. The point is merely that there's a DW presence of some kind in the spotlights during this celebration. And I can't realistically bank on Wendy allowing a month-long Spotlight for DWA when I've never seen such a thing before. I hope she does, but we need to be realistic and think in terms of what's good for DW coverage at Wikia overall. Two of the options I laid before Wendy — which is to say 50% of my suggestions —  involved an outcome where DWA had a Spotlight on 23 November.

I will try to do things at DWA this week, but as you rightly pointed out, I'm extraordinarily busy at Tardis. I may temporarily appoint a limited-duration admin at DWA until you get back, just to ensure there's someone less busy doing something over there. It is unfortunately a downside of encouraging IP editing that in moments of crisis like this there's no one from the home wiki to turn to. The only option I have is to recruit a user from Tardis to go over there and hopefully make some useful administrative edits.