Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7981828-20130517153049

I'm an administrator of a wiki, and even though I've barely been one for half a month, I'm not sure what I should do in the case of a fellow admin (and the only one with bureaucrat powers) who seems to be absent most of the time.

A little over a month ago, I informed the same administrator I wanted to adopt the wiki in question because the same administrator was gone for almost a month, and he informed me he had things he had to take care, but that he was back, still wanted to manage things, and made me an administrator.

He did not give me bureaucrat powers, citing bad experiences with a former user, and I accepted this, since I had only edited the wiki for about a month before I was made an admin.

However, since then, his presence has been rather sporadic, and I seem to be the only regular administrator regularly putting forth effort into the community. We have a lot of cleanup and lots of issues of wiki policy we need to discuss (he's the only bureaucrat and the apparent wiki founder, so I've been trying to go through him for important wiki policy decisions), but his presence is still sporadic.

Worse, there are several things he doesn't want messed with, but due to his oft absent presence and his extremely hands off policies, I'm not sure what I have the power to fix, nor have I been able to get in touch with him on a regular basis to discuss these issues.

I don't really like going behind anyone's back, as I do want to work constructively with this guy, but I seem to be putting forth most of the effort of trying to reach out to users, adding and cleaning up content, and all the other tasks an administrator is supposed to do on a consistent basis, and I'm not sure what I should do. 