Thread:Merrystar/@comment-27759101-20170131063510

Hey, my name is Will, an editor of Kongregate Wiki. Kongregate is a flash games website with messaging and chat systems, this note will be of importance later. The Wiki is filled with Kongregate games articles as well as descriptions of the site's chat rooms.

The Wiki was once an active place. Nothing lasts forever, it died out. Not enough contributions and admins absence. I arrived on 8th of February, 2016. Was building and maintaining one page at that time. I didn't like this ghost town, so I went making more game pages in my free time and updated the horribly outdated main page. Then it occurred to me, why not lead the effort to revive it. I did gain a contributor or two, but that's an extremely small gain considering the work left. I was in contact with the only active admin there, Walker9. Truth must be told, even though I don't like his lack of passion or plans to update the Wiki, he was helpful and at least didn't put me down when I tried to revive it.

One day he asked me to be an Admin there to gain more access to features, I accepted. Problem is, he's not a bureaucrat. Remember that I said Kongregate has a messaging system? Good. The inactive bureaucrat on Kongregate Wiki, WelderKong, is active on Kongregate, so Walker9 did message him there, he refused. Mind you WelderKong hasn't logged in the Wiki nor made any edit for more than a year, but still didn't spend any effort handing the torch to the new generation of editors and left the only active admin with limited power.

As the idea of becoming an Admin there owned me for a while and how a bless it would be gaining the features, I thought of adopting the wiki. Reading through the conditions and past requests, the only thing stopping me from requesting was that I know the request will be discarded for having an active admin. But as you can see, he's not a bureaucrat to give me access nor does he make the needed major updates.

Seeing all this, I didn't want to request the adoption myself, so I asked Walker9 to write on this message wall or request the adoption explaining the whole situation, he said yes. That yes was with a two weeks no action. Reminded him. It's been three months since my third reminder. With all respect I have for our admin, he lacks the desire to make a change and build a new community.

As I find myself alone in this, having my plan to renew the place and update it from minor issues such as the 7 years old theme and background to major ones such as coding for a better experience, I'm left with asking for help here. What can I do to gain all the possible editing powers in this case? As it is really needed for the future of the Wiki, before it completely dies.  