Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-4360159-20160623052817

Yo– Forgive me, because I'm going to be a bit blunt here:

I have been here for... a long time. Certainly long enough that I've been present for the promotions of all members of the current wiki administration.

This is a bit unprecedented for me as this will be the first time that I will explicitly ask for any user rights on this wiki. I too (like 40 other people on this wiki lately)  would like to apply for administration rights.

Fairly recently, I had been offered to apply for content moderation rights which I had taken in hopes to (at least somewhat) dent the massive maintenance backlog we have accumulated... or at the very least remove residual vandalism. This was my return to this wiki after a long departure... due to said backlog and clutter. After all this time, this wiki hasn't really cleaned up.

After almost two months of being a content moderator, I have determined that at this point in time, maintenance of the backlog is fruitless. I am asking for administration rights in order to perform preventative maintenance instead.

In order to setup this "preventative maintenance," I will push this agenda: Maintenance of Categories, establishing a fixed category tree, establishment of standards (although, not necessarily, a MoS) and enabling some stronger organizational tools (through requesting Javascript and adding scripts).

tl;dr– I would actually type more, but basically I am looking to access pages within the MediaWiki namespace. I have a history of this wiki: reverting vandalism, editing, somehow performing discussion moderation duties, etc.

addendum– Thanks all. And if there's anyone out there who opposes me... It's okay, becuase I will always support you man, buddy, pal, compadre, homeboy, homebro, ...homebrah? Dare I even say "homeskillet"? Or is that grounds for immediate crucification?  