Please vote in Forum:Nominations.
So Justin (TheFireJay) has left the wiki and removed his rights. Right now, we have no admins. While we do have Wikia staff support, we need to have an admin. Any proposals on what we should follow?
Utkar22 09:07, June 11, 2019 (UTC)
- Just to add my two cents - the way other wikis do it, users can nominate themselves as long as they follow some requirements. I would suggest that you (the community) come up with a similar way of deciding, as it would benefit you not only now, but also in future whenever you need more administrators or another user consider being one. A project page could be made - or perhaps this forum itself could do.
- As far as requirements/rules - it's for you all to decide what matters the most when it comes to electing administrator(s). As you're in more of a need for them, you don't necessarily have to be super strict. You may want to buzz some of the recently active users so they can comment here. --Playsonic2 10:26, June 11, 2019 (UTC)
- Hey all, my name is Dave, and I am Community Councilor here at Fandom. I stumbled across this wiki and noticed that there is a lot of clean-up and such that needs to be done, and so I have been doing what I can to deal with the stuff that catches my eye. I recently noticed that this wiki just had it's only active administrator quit, so I decided to begin the process of adopting the wiki. I am about 3/4 of the way done at this moment in time, but then I noticed this.
I agree that we should put together some content mod/admin elections for the community, but I think we should have a Bureaucrat oversee the process. I propose that we hold these elections after I finish adopting the wiki (I will fulfill my editing requirements on Thursday), so that we have one person in charge of the process and don't have to bug Staff about it. I think I am suitable for this position because I actually have experience with wiki management (I currently admin for over 10 wikis, and mod for a few as well). I am familiar with wiki policy, the admin tools, thread-moderation, chat moderation, and care very much about this wiki and it's users. I have the ability to train potential inexperienced admins, and teach them how to use their rights correctly.
Any thoughts on this? Cheers, --— Harrypotterexpert101 
(talk) 17:18, June 11, 2019 (UTC)
- This thread negates the need of an adoption process. Since staff is active on the wiki, why not use their help, and shorten the process. Besides, for adoption process, you need community support, which can be garnered on this thread itself. Hence, no need for adoption. Utkar22 18:37, June 11, 2019 (UTC)
- For an admin election, you also need community support, you can't just hold elections by yourself. Let's see what Staff have to say about this. — Harrypotterexpert101 (talk) 21:15, June 11, 2019 (UTC)
- For an admin election, you also need community support, you can't just hold elections by yourself. Let's see what Staff have to say about this. — Harrypotterexpert101
- As a staff member, I can expedite the adoption, but I'll still need a community discussion on who should be admin, and that person needs to fulfill the general adoption criteria, e.g. not be blocked elsewhere. If someone here volunteers and has the approval of the other active users, then I'm happy to promote that person. Mira Laime (help forum | blog) 00:17, June 12, 2019 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure on how this will work yet, but I am going to note that I'm paying attention to this and will be involved --LightStone123 (talk) 04:07, June 14, 2019 (UTC)
I'd love to help out and I could recommend my friend SWLover2 for the job. --Beethoven4ever (talk) 03:45, June 17, 2019 (UTC)
- There is a policy for adopting a wiki as the new admin that must be followed.Cebr1979 (talk) 08:41, June 18, 2019 (UTC)
Following up on some of the comments above, it appears there is a project page where previous nominations and community discussions about those already happened in the past. I would say an option would be to simply use it, as there is a history of it being used before and there is no need to discuss requirements (unless someone has valid reasons for challenging those). Although there's no active bureaucrat, it could be expedited by a staff member, like Mira Laime said. Playsonic2 (Wiki Manager) 13:50, June 18, 2019 (UTC)
- Where is this "expedition process" coming from? I can't find (nor have I ever seen) anything, anywhere saying that's allowed?Cebr1979 (talk) 14:00, June 18, 2019 (UTC)
- Usually, communities without an active bureaucrat who wish to put someone new in that role need to go through the adoption process on Community Central, and that hasn't changed. But since I'm already around on this wiki to help our Global Discussions moderators with installing local mods, I can promote the new bureaucrat myself once the community has agreed on someone (or someones - theoretically, you call could decide on more than one admin). The adoption page on Central is meant as a place to bring adoption requests to staff - but in this specific case, staff members are already present on your wiki and familiar with the situation, so it's unnecessary to use the adoption requests page. Anyone who wants to be promoted here would still need to fulfill the adoption criteria, though. They can just skip the Community Central request. Mira Laime (help forum | blog) 15:30, June 18, 2019 (UTC)