Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29818919-20161012170921/@comment-1721267-20161013175631

This is not a problem of whether NatiChan returns or not. If she does, we will have a single active administrator that will be shouldering a burden of running the entire wiki after just having come back. If she does not return, we continue to be without leadership.

The main problem is, that we need actual staff on this Wiki. That means several people that have administrator rights. The burden of running the Wiki can then be split among them, not to mention that it would be easier to discuss a plan about how to evolve this wiki and drive it in the right direction. And most importantly, if one of the administrators leaves because of life-related stuff (which is perfectly normal and even expected), it is not such big of a problem for everyone else that is still around, because active leadership is still in place.

@Taka: NatiChan cannot promote anyone, because she is only an administrator, not a bureaucrat. The only two bureaucrats left are Manik, and DancingFairy, both of which haven't been around. You keep telling us to wait and be patient. I have been around this wiki, and editing on a daily basis since the end of May. That is nearly five months, in which I have not seen any proper leadership being conducted. In truth, we would have to go even further back in time to find when an administrator has been active on this wiki.

This is something that we cannot allow. Because of waiting this long for something that might or might not happen, we are in a stalemate. It isn't so bad, if that stalemate lasts a few days, weeks. But it has been months, more than half a year, even. At this point, we are actually seriously harming the wiki.

We need to open a request on Community Central, and get them to promote one of us to a bureaucrat. Then, more of the active members need to be promoted. We should make it a rule, that at least one bureaucrat (which has mod-giving rights) should always be active on this wiki - if they feel like they will get busy, they should make sure another active bureaucrat is present at the same time. Thus, having two active bureaucrats (at least) at any time, would be the best, and most beneficial.

This has become a rather serious matter. We need to make a move.