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My Admin Story

I was an editor here for a few months. At first, I kind of just settled in without anyone really knowing, and just made a few edits here and there, since you know, you may as well help out where you can and make use of that knowledge just sitting there in your head.

I started posting on the forum a bit when I decided I may as well get to know some others. People appeared to like my personality, and I made a few friends who I now talk with on the live chat from time to time. The admins I also got to know better, who showed me a few more ways I could contribute. I happened to have found a bunch of concepts that nobody had noticed before, and got some nice recognition when I uploaded them to the various pages. I was surprised I hadn't seen my badges earlier, but it turned out I had done quite a bit from when I had first started. I wasn't too interested in them though, and went ahead to fix up some neglected pages that I don't think the admins had even realised were there.

While in the midst of working on them, one came up to me and asked whether I'd like to become an administrator. I hadn't even considered adminship since I came here! I had thought you at least had to have a good knowledge of the wiki's functions, the coding, and all that stuff which never really made sense to me. I mean, about all I could do was upload images and write some text. I was told I was chosen because of my long time commitment and quality edits, as well as being a friendly person on the forum. Well, I had actually set myself a few goals of improving the wiki in certain places, and decided that accepting he promotion would lead to a greater experience where I'd also be taught how to work the more advanced things, and also have a few more extra powers to help me.

I continued doing very well with my editing, learning how to work with the source code and get a better understanding with tables and a couple of templates, and along with that, had some new responsibilities. This included managing many different pages, deleting unnecessary ones and fixing up names, but also a little chat moderating on the forum and comments sections. People were fine with me since I was still the same person I was before my promotion, and they didn't really regard me as much an admin than a fellow editor. At times, though, it was rather hard to keep up, and I occasionally got a little slack. The other admins where fine saying it's a privilege but completely voluntary, and that however much time you give is down to your own motivation and time constraints, and whatever good results of it will be appreciated.

I'm not so much active these days as I used to, but I try to pop in at least once every day, answering any questions on my message wall and treating whatever pages need some looking into. Behind the scenes I do organise and devise things with other admins, and we still have many gradual plans to work with over the upcoming months. Sooner or later we think we may need another admin, so I decided to create a page giving a brief overview of what we'd be looking at. Hopefully we'll soon have just the person to join us, and look forward to working with them in the future.