User blog:Takashichea/Magi Wikia's Oct 2016 Community Spotlight

Welcome everyone to the community spotlight! I do this monthly for any active Wikia where I'm an Admin or Bureaucrat. The purpose of this is promote the Wikia and showcase our best wiki works as well as current projects. Controversially, I point out any disputes.

However, my plate is full as I'm an Admin of Anime Vice Wikia and Boards. I'm fully committed to that community as it's my home. Magi Wikia is more like a 3rd home to me.

I will complete this report in full detail with dates.

I briefly touch base on what big things happened.

Last month, we had a discussion, a very heated one where Brandon asks the community to select new admins. I say heated because everyone had their different expectations and goals for this community as well as concerns and limits of what we can do. Lots of misunderstandings occurred. Our new Admins were Mell and myself. Mell's main admin roles are coding and aesthetics of the site. My admin goals are cleaning images, deleting images, adding fair use on top of my current duties: writing chapter summaries.

New Wiki Pages: Non Wiki Pages
 * Brandon started adding more of the race pages: Human, Ogre. Dragon Nesha helps out with Kanji and Romaji for these pages
 * Mell and I added chapter summaries for Magi. We took turns. Dragon Nesha helps out with the chapter covers. As for Adventure of Sinbad, it's only Mell doing new chapter summaries. We don't have anyone working on Adventure of Sinbad.

The front page was updated by Mell. Changes were the character section which the characters had new templates for a smaller box design. The new chapter sections now include short summaries.

I'll add more. These are things I had on top of my head right now.

Wiki Data

I haven't check. This section requires a lot of time.

Disputes

Aside from the admin discussions, we had disputes on the human page regarding the content. Then, we had some disputes regarding Judar's sexuality in the comment section. Thankfully, none of these made on the wiki pages. Then, we had to divide the link on comments where new coming users will make suggestions or point out missing things. While they are helpful, at the same time, they provide some cons to the benefit as we don't have a huge community. This is a small community. It's not productive and efficient for new users to not help us add these things themselves. Finally, we had the list of character pages where we had conflicting goals and promises. I believe in the concept: do not make promises you can't keep. Based on my wiki experiences, I have seen very ambitious users just drop projects on the fly due to obligations in their lives outside of the site. You have to be cautious on what you can do for the present not the future.

Thank you everyone for reading. I hope you guys and gals support the community if you can.

This is Takashichea signing out.