Adoption:Badman Wiki

What is your username? Chippy2000

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

How many days have you edited the wiki in the past 10 days? 7

On the Special Pages → Special:ListAdmins, how many admins have been active in the past 60 days? 0

Comments/Reasons for adoption: Hello, I'm looking to adopt the Badman Wiki.

The Badman Wiki has existed since 2009 and has seen sporadic edits over the years. It's a game series with a predominantly Japanese fanbase, and this wiki has been effectively the only "big" western source of information for this series for the past decade. The information was originally ok, but not great, with many poorly-made pages and dubious organisation. I've been working on improving it on-and-off and decided that it would be a good idea to try and adopt it to make it the best it can be. Due to its sporadic edits, games past 2011-ish have very little content on them.

Ever since 2011, the original owner of the wiki has been completely inactive, and there was no other staff member appointed to keep things going. Ergo, the wiki has been a bit of a lawless wasteland, but there have been minimal trolls or vandals, which is a pleasant surprise to me when I've been making all the pages. Because of the lack of this, the wiki is in a shockingly ok state for something that has lasted this long.

I've taken it upon myself to "complete" the wiki, finishing a lot of the unfinished content and working on making it easier to navigate within my power. My main aim has been documenting all the monsters and working on already-existing pages to bring them up to some kind of quality standard. Consistency is my main gripe. I've spruced it up with images, diagrams, and other content offered in the games. Because of the massive quality uptick, the wiki is the best it ever has been, and I aim to continue enhancing it.

I have reviewed the information on the Adoption Policy, and believe I qualify in most respects.
 * I've dedicated the past week to revamping much of the content, bringing it out of the gutter, and have been looking to improving image presentation as well. There is no sustained editing by other users.
 * I've tried to get hold of the old owner on their talk page, but obviously, no dice...they've been inactive for over a decade. There are no other staff members.
 * I've not been made an admin on any wiki before, nor owned anything extensive, but I think this would be an interesting venture for me. I've never been blocked on any FANDOM Project.
 * I have created not one but numerous new pages in the mainspace, significantly increasing the wiki's content. I've ensured it's categorised, used with tact, and isn't too invasive.
 * I've not been able to talk to other users because there just aren't any that are acitve. I have, however, been adding a significant amount of images to pages, including assets directly from the games themselves. Should I ever get access to the front page, I would love to apply my experience there to aid in community-building. I have a Discord server prepared for this.
 * I have been attempting to update the wiki to be in line with the current year. Naturally, adding this much information is very difficult...

There is one issue that you may have, and it's that the page view statistics may not be that good. For starters, this video game series isn't that popular outside of Japan. Past editors tended to come, do a bunch, and then go due to a lack of community behind the wiki. There appears to have been one user that wanted to adopt the wiki around 7 years ago. Due to the poor organisation of the front page that lacks a community portal, there's just been no way to sustain any user retention or mobilise proper projects. If I could edit it to just be better at that, I would! I want to! However, there are no currently active users outside of myself, and naturally, no staff to do so. I would hate to see this wiki closed as it's truly becoming a great place and I would like to see it through. There's not even a theme and the colour scheme kind of sucks on dark mode, I would love to see that improve.

There is another smaller wiki here from 2012, which is similarly inactive. It may be worth merging it, if only for the much better front page: https://whatdididotodeservethismylord.fandom.com/wiki/What_Did_I_Do_to_Deserve_This_My_Lord_Wiki

I hope that this is enough for me to adopt this wiki and try to make it the best I can be. It's been a very interesting few weeks of looking around and I hope to continue using this passion for something good.

Thank you for your time!


 * Hello. Your contributions look good, and I've given you admin and bureaucrat rights. Good luck with the wiki! ReverieCode 17:09, 28 October 2021 (UTC)