Admin Forum:Q&A with Admins and Founders

Hi all, if you've been reading the Admin Central:Forum, you know that I'm BassJapas, more commonly known among Wikians as Jazzi. I was recently asked to create a thread with questions for Admins and Founders. Now, to let you know, I'm very nervous about writing this, so I apologize for any spelling errors and grammatical mistakes.

Although I already have a couple of questions to ask you guys, I don't have many, so feel free to add new sections with more questions, but don't forget to expand on what you're asking.

This thread is open for anybody to add new questions, so don't be afraid. I'd love to see what you guys have to say. -- Bass Japas   (Jazzi)  02:28, July 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * Edited by The Midna of Zeldapedia

Founders, how do you find new users?
At the start of a new wiki, it's always hard to start a community, and once it starts, it's still a bit hard to keep that community growing. What are your best ideas for finding new users? What are the best ways to start a community? How do you keep that community going?

Admins, how did you get to the point of adminship?
We all started off as just a simple new user in the sea of hundreds. Whether or not there is a smaller community on the wiki you edit at, or if there's a large one, we all started out small. And from that original stance, how did you become an admin? Was there a Request for Adminship involved, or did you adopt through Community Central:Adoption requests? Everybody has his or her own unique story on becoming an admin. Why don't you tell us yours?

Replies
I became admin on the Shrek wiki when I got obsessed with achievements. I was collecting hundreds of points. One of the achievements I wanted was Stopping by to say hi!, which was for leaving a message on someone's talk page. The main 'crat at the time, Manyman, was the user I picked. I had no idea what to write, so I browsed his messages for inspiration. One of them was a RfA, and I commented "I wanna be one too!" Because of all of my edits I'd already made for achievements, he gave it to me right away. For other badges, I wrote a blog post called Achievements and commented on it. I added lots of categories to pages (all relevant, of course) and stopped using the Preview button. I improved our wiki a lot, but didn't actually want adminship when I asked for it and received it. But, I still worked to be the best administrator I can be. —Airhogs777 (talk • contribs) @WikiShrek 18:58, July 3, 2011 (UTC)

My rise to adminship was completely out of the blue! I had just joined the Jadusable Wiki and had a huge spiel on my user page about remember to keep the quality of the article, and that I was asking around for information we had missing. After making edits here and there, I went to thank the Founder for welcoming me to the wiki. When he read my user page he promoted me! It was totally unexpected. :) Immortallies 19:48, July 3, 2011 (UTC)

I went through several requests for adminship on the CoD Wiki, the ones which failed (all 4 of them 9_9) failed because apparently I didn't have enough experience and partly that "there were enough admins". Eventually the 5th one passed, and I have enjoyed being an administrator ever since and was promoted to bureaucrat in January. If anyone ever asks why I put so many RfAs/RfBs in, it's because I always thought I was the best person for the position, while that may seem complacent and totally arrogant, which it probably does, I really did think that and had my expectations crushed many times. I didn't give up and determination to help and general friendliness got me where I am today. So in conclusion (a.k.a. the TL;DR version), just being a general help in all aspects of the Wiki and being friendly to all users no matter their status will always help you obtain adminship, if that is your aim. --Callofduty4 02:13, July 5, 2011 (UTC)

On Bleach answers, I was promoted because I was one of two people answering questions. I am already the 4th in charge of Bleach wiki even though I am not an admin and so when we needed another admin on answers, the one active admin there thought it would be easiest on us both if I was made an admin.--

I was originally an admin in charge of fan fiction content on the Sims Wiki, but eventually that job was phased out and I was given the normal admn role. I'm actually surprised still that I got in for adminship, as I was only on wikia for about a month and a bit when it was approved. --W H  (Talk) 02:29, July 5, 2011 (UTC)

How do you interact with the members of the community?
If a new user needs help, do you give them the help they need? How do you go about with it? What kinds of help have you given? From helping with signatures, to helping teach the standard of the wiki, new users need help, some more than others. But one very important thing to remember when helping an user, new or old, always be friendly about it.

What wikis are you an admin at?/What wikis did you found?
Some admins edit at many wikis and are admin at one, and some admins edit at a couple and are admins at all. Where do you edit and at which wikis are you an admin? Did you create a wiki? If so, which wiki did you create?

I Need to add more admins to my Wikia
(--&gt;) Topic moved to Admin Forum:I Need to add more admins to my Wikia.

Discussion
In my opinion being an admin reqires edits but you have to stand out from others with the same amount of edits. For example on my home wiki (where I just became admin) I set up a quote generator for the main page, and also set up a featured article system. You've also got to want to be admin but not to the point of annoyance. Like after every hundred or so edits I would ask a bureaucrat that I was familiar with and he would ask the other two bureaucrats and they eventually made me admin. But you can't just keep on bugging the bureaucrats about being admin you'll never become one because first of all its annoying and lets face it, a wiki doesn't need a hundred plus admins. If an admin edits atleast once a day thats good enough and usually most wikis have at least 6 admins. --  Kangaroopowah   Talk   18:42, July 2, 2011 (UTC)