User blog comment:Sannse/The Advisor Experiment/@comment-38649648-20191204042703

I think this could be a great program, but not sure that the larger wiki's with a lot of editors are the ones that need help. Shouldn't they be helping each other? A few months ago I helped a wiki that is based on a book series that I read, but I'm not passionate about it and I have my own wikis so didn't want to put in the time to fix that one, especially since there was a disinterested admin. There were very few editors, more like a line or two every month or so. There was a lot of potential there and I suspected high traffic, but most of them went away unhappy with the wiki and posted neg comments in a discord group, a group that has over 500 members. One of the people there was making a few edits, but it was obvious that he didn't know how to proceed. I started helping him with advice and showing him where on fandom to get info and some similar wikis covering the same genre. I did some of the more technical stuff, the infoboxs and templates were a mess and when he asked for my opinion I gave him some suggestions. The admin end up by giving that guy several moderator levels so he could see the traffic and WAM scores. The admin keeps saying he is going to bump him up to admin but hasn't yet. He has added around 300 articles in just a few months and is even more enthused and the best part is a few others have started to contribute to the wiki, too since it is now much better organized as well as more content. Sorry for the long post. I am really enthusiastic about a program like this as I saw that it can help out the wiki's that are not growing and not getting directions from their admins. BTW, his wiki has been in the top 5000 several times now, which just makes him more excited and now its rare for him to need any suggestions from me. It also sounds like there may be some glitches in the program. I'm not sure that the editor should be picking the advisor, I would think it would make more sense if the advisor was chosen because they were familiar with the content or type of content and that they should take more of the initiative then waiting passively. There are nice ways to do that with out putting someone's back up.