Forum:Anyone have an idea why my Spelljammer Wiki application is delayed?

Does anyone here have an idea why my application for a Spelljammer Wiki might be delayed?
I applied for a Spelljammer Wiki back in April. (The Wiki will be about the fictional Spelljammer universe - a fantasy setting where sailing ships are able to fly into "wildspace" and travel between planets. You can read more at my application.)

I started promoting my application within the Spelljammer community, but soon found that my application had been tagged as both "Supported" and "Closed". I also had a message at the top of my application telling me I would be contacted soon.

I passed on the news and waited. I also cut back on my work on my Spelljammer Mini-Wiki, thinking that any articles there, would need to be cut out and moved.

(Because I'd be "getting news in a few days", I considered that moving the articles after a few days would be a wasted effort. And many of the article names I want to use, like "elf", "dwarf" and even "Penumbra" are already in use by other Mini-Wikis, so working around them is additional work I could avoid if I already had my own namespace. I thought it would be better to promote the project on the Spelljammer Mailing List - I've now lost that original promotion and will need to promote my project again.)

It has been several months now. I've tried contacting the admins via the Community portal, but haven't had a response.

At first I thought this might mean they were snowed under with work, but having searched through other new Wikis, I've seen some that have had applications after my own. So I'm starting to suspect that somehow I have slipped through the net and been accidentally ignored.

Is a long delay with Wikia applications normal? If not can anyone tell me what to do to get my Wikia application looked at again? (I would assume that making a second application would be the wrong thing to do.)

(My time hasn't been totally wasted as I've even thought of some better ways to promote the Spelljammer Wiki - I want to tie in factual articles about Spelljammer with the role playing articles on Beyond the Moons, the official Spelljammer website. If I can do that, the Spelljammer Wiki can use Beyond the Moons as a resource for anyone looking for roleplaying rules. And when Spelljammer Wiki has enough content, it can become the encyclopedia that Beyond the Moons currently lacks.)

I have people interested in helping me, but I don't think they understand how to deal with the multi-wiki environment of Scratchpad Wikia. I'd like to move forward so that I can give them some positive news.

I'm prepared to do some more promotion work, but don't want to tell people the Spelljammer Wiki is starting soon again, as nothing happened the first time I told them.

Has anyone got any other suggestions for things I should be doing at this time?

David Shepheard 09:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * You already got support from a staff. This should be done soon. Wikia staff are really busy sometime. I can be as fast as in the same day or take even more than a week. No big deal. Start drawing your main page. ;-) TulipVorlax 11:08, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * PS.: You can copy layout of this one if you want : fr.guildwars TulipVorlax 11:09, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comments TulipVorlax. I expected some sort of delay and have actually waited nearly seven months rather than "more than a week". If seven months is normal, I am very happy to wait my turn in the queue, but it looks like other people have got wikis set up in less time than that. I'm worried that I might have been accidentally bypassed. At some point I have to start waving and asking for help.
 * I've already got a mini-wiki set up and I'm going to go back to adding content to that until I get the full-featured wiki. Thanks for the suggestion about using the layout from your wiki. It looks really good. Shame I don't speak French, otherwise I would be able to appreciate the entire thing. I can't wait to get a cool logo, like the one you have. Is your size the official size for Wikia logos? David Shepheard 11:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Seven month is a tad long, yes. Sorry about that.
 * For the logos, we normally need to put two. One at Image:Wiki.png and another at Image:Wiki wide.png. I only have the first one on my wikis. TulipVorlax 20:34, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

David, I'm really sorry about the mistake here. This request should not have been tagged with "Closed" until it was either made or rejected, and there was no reason to reject this request. Spelljammer's an excellent topic with wide support as you said -- one of the longest RPG campaigns I ever played in took a turn among the celestial spheres -- and we are excited to have a wiki on this topic. Unfortunately once the "Open requests" category was removed, the request disappeared off the lists that Staff uses to make sure we don't miss anything. :(

Please accept my sincere apologies. Your wiki now exists at http://spelljammer.wikia.com and you have administrator and bureaucrat rights. If there's any help you need, please don't hesitate to ask me -- I am eager to make up for our oversight.

Thank you for your patience and willingness to return! Best wishes on your project. — Catherine (talk) 21:17, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your help Catherine! I thought this might be an error, but I wasn't angry because I know that this is a free service and that you all work very hard to help people set up their wikis.


 * I'm sure I'll be asking for help at some point, but I'm going to try to see what I can learn by myself first.


 * I hope that some of the articles on Spelljammer Wiki will remind you of things that you saw in your spacefaring RPG campaign. David Shepheard 01:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC)