Adoption:Wyrmrest Accord Wiki (2)

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What is your username? Zandrae

Please link to the wiki here: http://wyrmrest.wikia.com/

How many edits have you made on that wiki? 315

How many days/months have you been editing there? On and off since January 12, 2014.

On the Special Pages → Special:ListAdmins when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? Last active admin was: Cajunsamurai. They last edited on: 08:27, December 31, 2013 (I poked around and found them on twitter and sent them a direct message but got no response, but I tried.)

Any other information: The Wyrmrest Accord wiki is a bit of an unusual creature because it serves as page for users of the second largest North American RP server of WOW to put their character profiles and include information about the world they play in. The server has a community, or two, or three, scattered all about, and you will not see much user to user interaction on the wiki itself.

WRA players talk to each other in game, and over Blizzard's own chat service (battle.net), as well as a server discord where I serve as one of the trustees. We also have a facebook group and a number of us talk on the official WOW Wyrmrest realm forums: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/1182815/

Several months ago, some players came to me privately on the discord and asked me why I hadn't taken over the very long time abandoned wiki. I went back and started editing my own stuff, installing some keen templates, publicizing the wiki on the realm forums, etc.

I also had our discord server create a live chat support channel for users of the WRA Wiki who need help, and I usually am available on the discord for WRA Wiki users who need help unless I'm asleep, studying, or in class. The discord support channel is found here, and this information is also on the wiki. https://discord.gg/ZaXr8qS

The Wiki has a lot of potential for players to showcase their own writings, but it's currently flooded with a lot of out of date information from players who no longer play. The front page is locked and is so out of date that the link to the realm forums is an error 404.

Our realm forums' guild list maintainer is no longer able to maintain the list so I suggested using the wiki as a place to index guilds and a method for keeping them fresh. I even posted a template folks could use to do the thing and an example. Using the Wiki for this (basically building an encyclopedia of guilds on our server) that isn't on someone's private domain that might go poof and that isn't being controlled by and therefore censored by a single individual is very good. (Our old forum post list maintainer wouldn't do that but still.) You can find this thread here: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20749737175

I have created a blog entry about the idea of adopting the wiki a few months ago as the guide requested and chattered with people about concerns that I've seen people express on the realm forums when wikis come up as a subject (ie: server canon and why it's a bad thing) and policies, we've got a few folks on board who are willing to help out, some posting on the wiki, others posting on the discord.

I'm not the most active editor, part of this is because I have a thing about not touching other people's creative work unless absolutely necessary and a large scale cleanup is something that should be made with an administrator or three and a community discussion. The big idea is to set up multiple administrators and multiple moderators and whatnot so that the wiki doesn't fall into abandonment when someone's life gets real or they move on.

That's all I have to say about that.

There appear to be a few other active users on the wiki, so you'll need to create either a blog or forum to let them know of your attempt to adopt the wiki and get their opinions on it. You should also post a link to it here. Other than that, you look good! Just make sure you continue to edit at least once a day before Staff review this. Good luck!-- Annabeth and Percy ~They say you gotta take the good with the bad. I'll take it all as long as I have you.  01:41, October 22, 2016 (UTC)

Blog post is here: http://wyrmrest.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Zandrae/Quandaries_of_the_Wiki_Kind  Zandrae (talk) 15:55, October 23, 2016 (UTC)