Forum:Role of Admin in Wikia sites?

I'm trying to understand the hierarchy in Wikia sites. Is the role of Admins to ride roughshod over contributers or are as a rule are they mostly supposed to stand aside and let contributers do their thing? I ask because I am an admin for a different Wikia site and I basically do that, stand back and allow contributers to add content and I only get involved when there are disputes. This morning I went to a site which for now will remain unnamed, I saw descriptions of a story in an intro paragraph, corrected them and came back later to find that they had both been erased by the site's admin. I was told I was telling the story twice, as other parts of the article decribed the story in detail. But a narrative was all ready in place in this intro article. I just fixed it. It seemed to me that instead of fostering a collaborative atmosphere, the admin at this site was trying to control content. I found it frustrating, taking the time to fix something only to see the changes thrown out. After a lengthy discussion with one of the Admin, I saw the writing on the wall and decided that my input was not really wanted and did not feel the need to bang my head against the wall, adding content only to see it disappear.

It made me wonder what the official line is on how Wikia sites are supposed to function? Are they supposed to be a collaborative effort or input as only allowed by admin of the site? Thanks. Titanic71 00:21, June 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * The problem is often that local admin who have created a wiki think they own it.
 * There was a page on this wiki that was explaining that nobody own a wiki on Wikia but i failed to retreive it.
 * Aside from that, Wikia generally let local admin do whatever they want and avise to try to talk with them when they behave badly. Normally, even if you're blocked, you can still edit your own talk page.
 * On some more severe cases, Wikia can intervene, although it generally only consist of talking whit them. — TulipVorlax 00:05, June 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Exactly, no one owns a Wikia site. So the question then becomes how strick is the control an Admin has over the structure of articles? If you want to add a new paragraph in this case, a summary, does Admin have the right to block you? I realize there is what Wikia says is supposed to be and then there is how it really is. :P Titanic71 00:17, June 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * The behavior of admins is hard to police and there are so many Wikia in existence now (119290 according to TulipVorax's counter), that unless several users use Special:Contact to notify Wikia staff and have consistent stories, the likelihood of discipline is probably small. If there is a group of coordinated admins demonstrating bad behavior, you're basically screwed as they will back each other up when talking to Wikia staff. C'est la vie, as they say.
 * That said, Special:Contact is really your best recourse, if discussion with the offending admin has no effect. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 5:51 PM PST 3 Jun 2010
 * Thanks for the input. I have contacted Wikia staff by means of the link you provided, but realistically I don't have any real hopes I'll be able to function on that wikia. BTW the wikia in question is: http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki. Titanic71 02:31, June 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the input. I have contacted Wikia staff by means of the link you provided, but realistically I don't have any real hopes I'll be able to function on that wikia. BTW the wikia in question is: http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki. Titanic71 02:31, June 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hopefully your task isn't unobtainium-able. Sorry, I couldn't resist. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:27 PM PST 4 Jun 2010