Community Central talk:Adoption requests/2008

Picture
Can someone explain the picture to me, it just seems a bit random? -- Semaj draehs - Talk page 19:50, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


 * It's blueprints, cause you're building a wiki. It's a metaphor. (In other words: The best that we could come up with at the moment. :) ) -- Danny (talk ) 23:38, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Great choice of picture: unfinished building, with the viewer holding the plans for how the project should be continued. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 10:03, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Is there any discussion on changing those set requirements for adopting a wiki
mainly 'the original admin hasn't edited in 60 days', if an admin hasn't edited in 30 days, but only edited for one day in the first place, isn't that just as worthy for adoption as lets say an admin who edits for a year then has abandoned for 60 days?

I'm not sure if these standards were a community descion, but I do believe they are a bit obstructing. -- Semaj draehs - Talk page 19:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


 * In general, there shouldn't be a huge rush to become an admin somewhere. You don't need to be an admin in order to contribute to a wiki, and help build it up. If the admin hasn't edited for 30 days, then leave them a talk page message, or try sending an e-mail.


 * Meanwhile, work on adding content for a while. There's tons to do on a new wiki -- building up articles, adding images and creating a category structure. You don't need to be an admin to do that stuff.


 * By the time you've made 100 pages of content, it'll be 60 days, and you'll be able to request adminship then. For now, your focus should be on building the content. How does that sound? -- Danny (talk ) 21:29, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It says that you mustn't have been been made an admin on any other wiki, in order to be eligible to adopt. Does this include the Admin Tools Wiki? It would seem reeeeeally dumb if it did. TimerootTalk • Contribs • Edit count 22:30, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Requests in other languages
Is Wikia management happy to have each established Central Wikia in another language run its own parallel procedure for adoption? See, for example, adoptions.

If so, should there be some way to ensure that nobody can be granted adoption rights in respect of more than one wiki at a time, irrespective of which language/s they use and which Central Wikia they apply through? Any other safeguards come to mind? — Robin Patterson (Talk) 05:42, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Halowiki.net
Is it possible to adopt halowiki.net? Halowiki isn't apart of the wikia community, it is just mediawiki. I have considered adding a request but I am not sure if I am allowed to since its not wikia, I believe that it meets all requirements to be adopted, its founders have left, only about 4 members contribute (including myself), and there is only 1 (active) admin left and no bureaucrat. Please help, thank you --I Ross I


 * That wiki has absolutely nothing to do with Wikia, thus Wikia staff have no power on that wiki. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Dec 27, 2008 @ 08:28 (UTC)


 * Too bad it's under the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license - or you could copy its material to a Halo Wikia. But you and the other active members could copy your own contributions over to here and create (more?) links from there to here. (Its sole bureaucrat/founder contributed in late September, so you may be a bit unfair saying its founders have left. Have you tried emailing the founder or any of the other dozen inactive sysops?) — Robin Patterson (Talk) 10:22, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thank you you guys, I figured it wasn't going to work, so my only shot is to email the founder/bureaucrat and ask for help. (and about 9 out of the 12 other admins have made less than 50 edits, they were just clan members, so yah) Thanks again, I Ross I