Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29818919-20161012170921/@comment-6005167-20161013233542

Hello, I'm an old editor and I heard about the discussion from Nat, so I came to see by myself.

I'll write my thoughts in case it may be of any use, but I'd like to make clear that all I can offer is the point of view of someone from other editing years. I love Magi wikia and I have really good memories of it, but I left because I didn't have the time or energy to contribute regularly anymore and it's no different now. All I can do is share my experience

First I was not very sure on whether I should say anything, but in Brandon2505's reply, something called my attention: the part about the staff keeping their commitments instead of passing them down.

I edited quite intensively, but my activity lasted a year more or less, so I don't know the amount of activity afterwards. From my time, there was nobody else aside from us who would take over any roles, and from what I heard from Nat, after my leaving there were some sporadic editors appearing and leaving, but they didn't really stay. Only Nat and Taka kept going regularly? Until Nat also got too busy so she had to leave. This is my knowledge, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Taka, Manik and Nat are amazing contributors who want the best for the wiki, but if they didn't pass their rights to anybody else I think it's because there was really nobody interested in it (aside from Dancing Fairy I suppose, I don't know them). Not at least until the currently most active editors appeared. I don't know for how long you have been around, but since passing editors were the most common in this wikia, I feel like Nat&co didn't actively search for someone to take over the rights if the person had to leave in a couple of months.

You are doing well in asking about the matter, and as someone who most likely won't return to the front lines I won't try to tell you what's the best way to organize or who's the most suitable.

Still, I see many of you anxious at how the wiki will die if things keep like that, but if you allow me to say this, ever since I heard there were no recurring editors aside from Nat and Taka (who're very busy) anymore and the Magi manga in its last arc, I thought this wiki would eventually just perish. And now so many editors I've never seen have joined! I'd have never bet on it.

I guess I understand you wanting a full time admin, be it for codes or just to keep in check people boycotting your efforts, but not the part of wanting to turn most editors into admins/bureau to make sure at least one will be active and capable of passing down the rights in case the others leave. I don't see it beneficial to the wiki to have so many admins at once, and it doesn't even guarantee anything. In my opinion, just centering your efforts on how to bring the wiki higher during your stay is better, instead of worrying how to ensure the activity never stops in the future. Maybe when you all leave there won't be anybody else to pass rights to. Maybe in some months, maybe years, Magi wikia will be in the same state as now, with no admins active but with new editors willing to work into it. The rights can always be acquired if they're asked to Community Central, so if this were to happen they'll just have to ask for them the same way you'll do when you finally come to a decision about who will be admin.

Taka is the only one I know and I trust his judgement, so, like Nat, I'd vote for whatever he thinks is best. If he says he can't take over the role because he's too busy but that there's someone capable to be admin, then I'm fine with it. Well, I guess I'm outdated because I haven't been there in long but Magi wikia was like my second home for a good time so I want to follow its changes.