Forum:Admins are users too

It has come to my attention again that the wiki spirit has died. Last summer we made progress again with the article project, editing the namespace and having a new skin for the wiki, but then users were arguing again, threatening to leave etc, and the wiki has yet again not been making any progress really.

I'm starting to wonder whether everyone just expects the admins and users who have been here longer to do all the work. But the wiki's are not supposed to work like that. Admins are not gods, we are not "high authority", we are just users trusted enough to do maintenance like page delection. In fact almost anything an admin can do, a user can do as well. If the users won't help the admins out, then it makes the job longer for us. I think what caused this problem was when the older users from 2009 and early 2010 became semi/inactive, and there was only me and Ose as admins, so there was no one to instruct the newer users. Wikia has also changed, it has become more blog-like.

 New issues: 
 * Revive article project, it was a good idea.
 * Despite page patrols, there are pages that are not NPOV (Neutral Point of View), and some pages seem to have as much player speculation and ideas than actual fact. We should view pages a bit more and hunt for these.  Also spelling and grammar could be checked.  Me, Ghelae and Technobliterator are, but we need more users to get the job done perhaps in hours.
 * Someone needs to fix this, by going ingame, looking at the details and fixing the table.
 * Shall we ask Wikia to remove Read More? I tried to remove it myself from the .css but I didn't work, Wikia now has to do it for us I think.
 * Taxons need reorganization. But its the least imortant thing I think at the moment, and the sever keeps breaking it anyway.

There is no reason why we can't start again, like how the users used to operate. These tasks are not too complex for any user really. I think the main issue is number two, I'm not sure on the extent, but I know speculation exists. These taks could take mere hours if everyone worked together like they used, instead of just expecting the few who do edit the rest of the wiki. Wormulon  Talk to me  11:00, April 26, 2011 (UTC)