Board Thread:Admin Discussion/@comment-5102537-20130214145139/@comment-4623180-20130214151127

Unfortunately some mistakes have been made here with admin allocation that are now showing, and as you can see it's a mess- admins are around the place without the proper hands-on experience, who never use their powers and only seem to know how to do simple actions such as block and delete pages. That has been out of my control. I made the mistake a while ago of making a user bureaucrat (who you know of) who is now never active and used it to threaten other users for having an opinion.

If I had it my way, and since this was the first Wiki I administrated I was naive and foolish, I would reverse time and start all over again and do the whole admin procedure differently- I myself am in a way the reason for absolutely every single admin on the Wiki being admin- except the ones before me (MrThermomanPreacher, that would be it). I allocated Alfons, who allocated people himself, and as we know the discussions did not take place and people did not think before giving power away. If I could run Wikia, I would make a lot of different ranks of admin- for example, 1, being the whole design, things such as Merlin Wiki's search engine description and so on, and the allocation of the whole admin team (as well as 2 and 1) 2, features such as CSS and JS, and editing locked pages and controlling threads and posts and so on, and 1, simple moderation tools for trolls- such as rollback (undoing lots of posts at once), temporary banning (level 2 and 1 would have a more extended ban) and so on. Those users should just be called "moderators". You can see this type of functionality in online forums on the Internet.

Nonetheless, despite all this, Merlin is over, and people are simply moving on. The Wiki has lost most of its traffic, most of the admins and users are no where to be seen, and often we'll go by hours without an edit. I remember the other week we even went by nearly a day. Wikis like Alice in Wonderland Wiki are unfortunately what will happen to this Wiki- it will become a ghost town. It is simply too late to worry about admin matters, and teaching as many admins as possible how to do everything, because really, all that there is left to do is ban trolls that vandalise articles. I mean, I was thinking of doing another skin and wallpaper now that the snow is over, but it is not worth my time, personally. This Wiki's golden era, is over. It's hard to accept..

Me and and the other admins when we spoke last have said to ourselves, there is not much left here anymore. The excitement in the Wiki was fuelled by the excitement of the show- which is now over. Of course, if you look at it in this way, there are countless edits we could still make to the Wiki- pages like The Knights of the Round Table are incomplete. But I feel, for myself, and I think others may feel this way, that doing that would be like expanding a toy collection we have years ago- things have their time and I think the Wiki's is passing.

Of course I'm not saying I'm not going to teach anyone some tricks, but I don't see how it'll make a difference. Of course if you're opening a new Wiki up or administrating a Wiki that is only on the verge of getting lots of traffic (like a Wiki for a TV show that is airing in a couple days) I would  be interested in helping to bring what the admins did here that made Merlin Wiki successful to that Wiki. Survivor Wiki is one example- see the arena section. See the customised skins and so on. If it weren't for that happening here, it wouldn't happen there!

So that's my little speech over. I wish well to all and, I will still be around but I don't see Merlin Wiki being on my list of important things in the future, as I'm starting Uni, I work, and have other goals!