Adoption:Ratched Wiki

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What is your username? Scottier

Please link to the wiki here: https://ratched.fandom.com/

How many edits have you made on that wiki? 108 Edits

How many days/months have you been editing there? 1 week

On the Special Pages → Special:ListAdmins when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it?
 * ItsAsIf: September 10, 2020
 * WandaVision Forever: August 20, 2020
 * Kylie Jenner's Secret Baby: August 6, 2020

Any other information: I am an admin of several wikis (8+), with over 3 years of admin experience, but over 15 years of experience editing Wikis in general. Most noteably I have been an Admin of Danganronpa Wiki for over 3 years, where I have over 20,000 edits. I am skilled with wikitext, css, and overall wiki design, having designed homepages, templates and other helpful navigational and design features for several wikis, and am active and quick to respond to vandalism issues.

On joining, I noticed an issue that the update to UCP had turned all of the Edit, Save buttons, and infoboxes to white text on a white background, rendering them illegible and making the Wiki very difficult to use. Another user had also previously tried to call attention to the problem via Discussions, but to no avail. I attempted to contact all of the Admins, but heard nothing back; I had to contact ReverieCode, Wiki Manager for the TV vertical, in order to resolve the problem, which thankfully they were able to fix. I'm concerned with how long the Wiki may have had this problem before the other user and I had called attention to it, and how long it would have remained had I not known to contact the Wiki Manager; I worry the buttons issue may have put off a lot of editors from contributing in the interim because anyone who is unfamiliar with Wikia wouldn't even know that the Edit button was there.

I am a big fan of Ratched, but noticed that the Wiki was pretty much empty beyond a very stylish homepage - character pages, even for key characters, are barebones or full of incorrect information. I would hate to see the Wiki go into disrepair, or be subject to vandalism, due to lack of care and attention. I have already begun expanding several character pages to make them as comprehensive and encyclopaedic as possible (see: Charlotte Wells, Lily Cartwright, which I have written entirely from scratch with an extensive biography) with intentions to improve all character pages over time. I have also implemented a new, more tailored infobox (the previous one was taken from another Wiki and contained totally irrelevant fields, like "species"), which I have installed for every character page as well as infobox images overall to a more consistent standard. With admin tools, I would be better equipped to overhaul some of the behind the scenes issues such as image management, accessing some of the locked templates to make the overall reader experience easier, and adding a clearer wordmark and custom favicon.

I have posted a Wiki Adoption blog post, however, the only editor since Nov 1 is Pbandfluff who has commented their approval on the post. Based on the RWA and inactivity of the admins I do not expect any further comments on the post. I also floated the idea on each of the admins' message walls when I alerted them to the white text button issue, however since they are inactive they have not responded to that either for obvious reasons.

Though I have only been on the Wiki for a short time and have a low edit number, I feel the edits I have contributed are substantial and informative, and are currently 2 of only 3 non-stub character articles on the Wiki (the third being Gwendolyn Briggs, also only written this week, and contributed by the editor who approved my adoption request on the blog post linked above). With this being such a young Wiki for a brand new series but with a huge viewership (the show was ranked number 1 in the nielsen ratings, and was watched by 48mil people in the first four weeks) I feel that with enough care this Wiki could be thriving before the start of the second season, but only if it is given a lot of care and attention that I feel confident I could help provide.

Thank you for your time.

Official response
Hello, thanks for your interest in adopting the Ratched Wiki! Your contributions look excellent and I've granted bureaucrat and administrator rights as requested. Please let me, or ReverieCode, know if you have any questions or need any help!

Good luck with the wiki!

× Cörey (talk) 23:46, December 13, 2020 (UTC)