Forum:Sysops for the Wiki

Greetings, all.

At the moment there is only one sysop who is vaguely active and that is User:AthCom‎. Obviously the wiki needs more active users with sysop privileges. The only users who can promote other users to sysops within the wiki are those with bureaucrats privileges and all of the wiki's bureaucrats are not active.

I have tried contacting User:MikaelGrizzly (who is a bureaucrat) on his talk page but have failed to receive a reply, even though he has logged into Wikia and thus would have got the notice that somebody left a message for him. (Yes, these things can be checked via Special:ListUsers.) I can only conclude MikaelGrizzly has no interest in giving the wiki the attention it requires.

We need a new bureaucrat. In an active wiki such as this Wikia prefers to promote existing active sysops to bureaucrats. However, AthCom has no desire to be promoted‎. Also, on active wikis, Wikia prefers the wiki's community choose their own sysops/bureaucrats.

This is the purpose of this discussion: to figure out who among you wants to be a bureaucrat so we can choose one (or two, whatever) for Wikia to promote.

And just to make it clear: I will not be taking the bureaucrat position. I have recently adopted another wiki and I doubt Wikia will allow me to effectively adopt another in such a short period of time. I will, however, gladly take a sysop position once we have a new bureaucrat. My objective is to help get the wiki back on its feet, build a cadre of core users who can carry out maintenance and improvement so I can wander back to the StarCraft Wiki.

So, stand up and be heard. The sooner this wiki has effective administration restored the sooner this wiki can be put back on its feet. - Meco (talk) 08:34, 26 May 2009 (UTC)