Forum:AR:Adoption request for Camerapedia.wikia.com

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What is your username? Steevithak

Please link to the wiki here: http://camerapedia.wikia.com/

How many edits have you made on that wiki? not sure

'''How many days/months have you been editing there? off and on since Wikia took it over'''

On the Special Pages -> Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it?

12:15, April 16, 2012 b y Süleymandemir, shortly before he died.

Any other information:

I'm an editor from the original Camerapedia community and currently a sysop/bureaucrat at Camera-Wiki.org.

Quick backstory on the site: When Wikia bought the Camerapedia.org domain, the community of admins and contributos moved the site to a new domain, Camera-Wiki.org. This resulted in a fork or split with the active site at Camera-Wiki.org and a semi-dormant copy of the site at Camerapedia.wikia.com. One of our editors, Süleymandemir, agreed to act as an admin on Wikia's version of the site to maintain it, keep it spam free, and look for a way to take it in a new direction so it wasn't just a copy of Camera-Wiki.org. He has been acting as bureaucrat and sysop of Camerapedia.wikia.com since then until recently when he died.

I edit primarily at Camera-Wiki.org but occasionally make edits on Camerapedia.wikia.com due to an ongoing need to delete images at the request of the rights holders. (Many of our flickr contributors provided images on a non-commercial use basis, and don't want them displayed on Wikia's copy of the site.) In most cases, this involves a simple page edit to remove the offending photo but in a few cases where the page is only a stub (as indicated by the presence of a "stub" template) the page is deleted too. For those deletion cases, we've relied on Süleymandemir, since he had admin access.

This is a very low volume need. I've only had to delete a handful of pages in the last year and only have two page deletes pending right now. But with no currently active sysop or bureaucrat, I'm stuck. I'm not interested in "adopting" the wiki, just in getting rights high enough to do page deletes when needed. I'm also happy to keep an eye on things and look out for spammers until a volunteer shows up to actually "adopt" things.

If you need more info, my email is: srainwater@ncc.com

-Steve


 * Hi. I am sorry to hear that Süleymandemir died -- he seems to have done a nice job with the wiki here. It looks like camerapedia has quite a few active contributors at the moment. Since you are not truly interested in adopting the wiki, I recommend you open a discussion (a blog post or forum) on the wiki to find somebody who is. We'll be happy to give sysop rights to whomever the community agrees should have them. It just seems to make more sense to give the rights to somebody who wants to build the wiki. If nobody is willing to do so at this time then please ask if they are ok with you having rights in the "maintenance" role you propose. -- Wendy (talk ) 05:16, April 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi again. Did you guys decide what you want to do? -- Wendy (talk ) 03:44, May 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * For now, I'm just adding a "delete request" tag to the pages that need deleting. As far as I know Süleymandemir was the last member of the Camerapedia community still editing on Wikia's copy of the old site, so there's not really anyone for me to talk to here - everyone else moved to Camera-Wiki.org after the Wikia takeover. I do see a few anonymous IPs editing and a couple of people who may have drifted in from other Wikia sites but aren't members of our community, at least that I'm aware of. I check in from time to time though, so if you eventually grant someone else sysop or bureaucrat privileges on the site, I'll try to start coordinating with them again. Steevithak 16:28, May 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok then. I'll close this request for now.  Feel free to contact me on my talk page if the "delete requests" build up or you have other problems you need a hand with there.  -- Wendy  (talk ) 03:05, May 18, 2012 (UTC)