Adoption:Hitchhikers

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What is your username? spacepigeon

Please link to the wiki here: https://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

How many edits have you made on that wiki? 516, as of 01/09/18, 6:14pm (BST)

How many days/months have you been editing there? 11 days

On the Special Pages → Special:ListAdmins when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? Jiskran was the last of the two admins to edit on the Wiki, and it was 21:38, June 23, 2018.

Any other information: The Wiki has been dwindling in interest and activity over the years, with only one admin for the majority of the time. Late last year the Wiki was picked back up and adopted at the very start of the year, however the process of cleaning up the pages was left half-finished and the latest edits by the adopter Jiskran have just been message threads and not actual work on the Wiki itself.

I left messages on as many past editors pages as possible, with only one person responding (Jaguar the Ravenclaw RainWing), who seems to have been the only other active user for the last two months+. Together, we have been working on plans to improve the Wiki, organising categorising systems, sorting out issues, increasing the information on the Wiki and going through wanted blogs. We've already improved the main page, the main characters pages, and overall added so much necessary information and updates as a lot of pages were merely stubs or were pages on real life people which were very out of date.

However, some pages need deleting, the top content categories need editing, some forum posts from people misunderstanding the context of our Wiki as one about hitch-hiking need deleting, the logo needs updating, and the Forum has been inactive for an unknown amount of time and needs re-opening.

The other active user is happy for me to take on an admin role and be able to sort out some key issues on the Wiki, and it will be reassuring knowing there is someone around who can block any users posting graffiti, as has happened before and been left for months due to a lack of active administrators. Being able to give them content moderator powers could also be useful to speeding up the process of tidying up this long-neglected Wiki.

The topic of this Wiki is one that has been a long-term interest of mine, so I hope to be able to stick around and work on editing this Wiki for as long as possible, being more available than past admins and hoping to forge a new community and new interest in this Wiki. Thank you for your time!


 * Hello. Your contributions look good, and I see that you made a blog post about organizing the wiki, in which you mentioned requesting to become admin. I've given you admin and bureaucrat rights. Good luck with the wiki! JoePlay https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/e/e5/FandomStaff.png (talk)  15:02, September 5, 2018 (UTC)