Adoption:Saiyuki Wiki

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What is your username? Havenaught

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

How many edits have you made on that wiki? 56 so far. I am currently working on methodically adding chapter summaries in chronological order.

How many days/months have you been editing there? 1 week so far.

On the Special Pages → Special:ListAdmins when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? The last edit by an admin was by Saiyukisama on Aug. 31, 2017.

Any other information: I have been involved in the Saiyuki fandom since 2005, and although I am new to the wiki and learning as I go, I have run a couple of LiveJournal/Dreamwidth communities and was a moderator on a small, Saiyuki-specific fanfiction archive. I see how dead the Saiyuki wiki currently is, how out of date it is, how much work there still is to do here, and it makes me feel both sad and excited about what it could become. In one week of editing, I am already ranked #6 on this wiki. I think that speaks for itself about how inactive the wiki currently is.

Although I am grateful for all the hard work the current admin team did in building the foundation of the wiki and giving it a great head start, they have now been absent for several years and even if they reappeared tomorrow, I do not believe they are the best choice for helping it grow into the future. It is also difficult for me to fulfill the community building aspects of the adoption request guidelines, as currently there is no active community on this wiki and any edits over the past few years appear to have been sporadic. I have greeted a couple of recent users/visitors on their message walls. The main character pages seem to be semi-locked, even though they still need a lot of cleaning up, so this is discouraging to users as well. In addition, there is so much recent news concerning the Saiyuki series (recent anime announcement, the upcoming new installment in the stage musical series, mobile game collaboration, new merchandise, etc.) and I would love to be able to update the news section to reflect this, except that the main page is also locked to editing.

Saiyuki is a beloved, long-running, on-going series that really deserves an amazing wiki. I'm so excited about the idea of polishing it up and building a thriving fan community here to help it grow!

I am seeking bureaucrat rights. Thank you for reviewing my request.

Havenaught (talk) 23:38, 30 January 2021 (UTC)