Adoption:Moomin Wiki

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What is your username? Spacepigeon

Please link to the wiki here: Moomin Wiki

How many edits have you made on that wiki? 125 edits, as of 17:05pm (BST), April 30, 2019.

How many days/months have you been editing there? Since April 22nd, 8 days in total as of April 30, 2019.

On the Special Pages → Special:ListAdmins when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? At https://moomin.fandom.com/wiki/Special:ListUsers/sysop no users with bureaucrat rights seem to appear. I tried to look extensively earlier and it seems any of the admins, and even the Wiki creator don't have accounts anymore, presumably because none of them have been active since around 2009. The most recent consistent contributor hasn't been active since March, and the ones before that haven't been active in over a year or more.

Any other information: In September 2018 I adopted the Hitchhiker's Wiki: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page which was long since inactive and in need of many updates. I've worked hard to redesign it, update all the templates and create new ones, work on creating more of an active community and actively communicating with the other contributors, keep all links and articles up to date with working links and correct information, and basically anything else that a Wiki needs to keep relevant and active. The Hitchhiker's Wiki is now much improved and even has a good amount of active contributors, and now just mostly needs the usual editing and updating of articles and Community pages, now that the theme, templates, pages and other outside elements have been fixed and updated and require no further work right now. This leaves me in a good position to have time to adopt a new Wiki and get that up in working order as my new project. I've been constantly active on the Hitchhiker's Wiki ever since adopting it and won't stop working on that, however it is in good shape for me to take up a new Wiki as well.

I've been a fan of the Moomins since I was 12, so I have a lot of background knowledge of it all, and a lot of motivation to work hard to improve the Wiki so that other fans can enjoy it and be part of the community, too. The Moomin Wiki reminds me of how the Hitchhiker's one used to look, although possibly needing more work as many of the pages are Stubs with minimal content, and a lot of the templates and images are out of date, including the background image which really needs fixing as it's no longer viewable. As with the Hitchhiker's page, I've set myself a to-do list of things that need work and have been going through it each day. If I am accepted as an admin, then I can also do work on deleting many of the duplicate pages, joke/graffiti pages, deleting and updating categories, and fixing the header bar and updating the theme and background image.

The Wiki is in desperate need of some direction and moderating right now as the recent Moominvalley television show just aired, which means there's been an increase in traffic to the Moomin Wiki and, unfortunately yet unsurprisingly, a lot of graffiti. Without many active contributors (the recent ones have all been one-off editors or vandals) these vandals continue to return and revert and vandalise pages, and the Wiki really needs someone who can block these users just coming onto the Wiki to cause problems. I've been prioritising working on articles on the Wiki for the most recent television series, as that is what most people seem to be clicking on and looking for, however, with the Wiki being in such a state of disrepair, people aren't staying to do much contributing.

I left up a blog post asking for people to let me know any more outstanding issues with the Wiki to add to a community to-do list, and also asking if people would be okay if I adopted the Wiki, however there have been no responses in over a week, which doesn't really surprise me as there's not much of an active community.

I hope that you can see that I'm up for the challenge and have good experience in bringing inactive Wikis back from the dead and into good shape, and hopefully you will consider my request to adopt this Wiki and set to improving it and hopefully building a community here. Thank you for your time!