Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29818919-20161012170921/@comment-1721267-20161014080344

For splitting characters, I cast my vote on splitting History and Story Arcs, because they are the ones that contain the most info, which can get big. However, I would say we should do that only for big articles (such as main characters, etc.) that actually contain that much information.

Now.. I'd like to thank everyone, particularly NatiChan and Velia for taking their time and posting in this thread. It means a lot to see your point of view as well; you are the most experienced after all, and it is you that we should thank for this wiki to be where it is today.

Let me just re-state here, that I never was in favour of there being too many admins. However, I think there should be at least one or two active ones at any time. The only thing I don't want, is for this wiki to remain without leadership for several months, which is what actually happened.

That is why I support Taka becoming an admin. Sure, he is busy with other Wikia's as well, but he has been around here for long, is experienced, and we can count on him. Having an admin isn't just about deleting pages, warding off vandals, updating the main page and locking/unlocking stuff, after all. When I have joined this wiki and initially made some changes to the templates, it was all done with good intentions, but I realise now that I should've asked an admin, which Taka pointed out to me back then. This is just one tiny example, but it illustrates how important it is to have an admin.

I'm a programmer myself. Currently, I have been active on this wiki for several months, and my contributions have mainly been related to updating the pages with new information, and fending off vandalism. Those are the things I currently can do. However, I see many possibilities for visual and organisational improvement of the site. Taka mentioned it is possible for me to write the code, and once I am done, for him to unlock a page, have me make the change and then lock it again. I can tell you that it is not so easy.

Many of the underlying code pages are available for admin-editing only (for example MediaWiki:Common.css, MediaWiki:Wikia.css,...), and if any new code is implemented, it will have to be locked as well to prevent unauthorised editing. For a programmer that is working on it, however, the code needs to be available. I cannot simply write a code, and have it work 100% right on the first try. I have to write code, upload it, test it, take it down, tweak it, then upload again, test again, and so on. It's an iterative process. To have another administrator constantly unlocking and locking the code pages for me in the meantime would be counter-productive and outright impossible.

In the above paragraph, I have only focused on visual (.css) pages. There's other programming to be done, that is related to actual functionalities of the Wikia. As you know, Community Wikia keeps driving the entire Wikia platform forwards and implementing new features all the time. We have even been encouraged several times, to update this out-dated Wikia. FishTank from Community Wikia was here, and after not having received any answers from the current administrators after a few weeks, did some of the template conversions on his own. Let me point out here, that he didn't do all of them. Race templates aren't properly converted (by the way, this page should be locked). Fight templates have some visual issues that would need to be resolved. There's problems, but I cannot resolve them because of limited access. I believe this is something we need to talk about.