User blog:AllAlongInGlass/Lack of Admin

I have been debating this awhile, but in light of recent events, and seeing ongoing vandalism at the hands of very petty users taking advantage of the absence of the "current" admin (who hasn't been active since December 2016). I've tried contacting this admin myself, but have yet to receive a response.

It's September 2017 with no word from the admin nor any sign of them returning, even if their user doesn't call them inactive.

I've already made a post on my talk page stating I wanted to gradually improve the wiki by updating it, and requestion people leave things they really wanted changed ASAP on said post. There is a lot of pages on this wiki in need of improvement, especially in terms of consistency and providing references.

However, as we know, the major issue is vandalism. Vandalism, without an active admin, is nigh impossible to minimise. An admin can lock and protect pages, block vandals' IP, and enforce warnings and policies. But thus far, there's nothing like that.

Over a year ago, I adopted a different wiki that faced crippling issues not only from vandalism, but admins unjustly locking pages for petty reasons and an intense refusal to interact with other users to solve editing issues. Since I have experience as an admin, I'm confident I can handle assisting and being admin to another. Both to improve the wiki and improve communication between other community members and the like. And I intend to be increasingly active and responsive to feedback.

However, I know I'm not the only one who might be interested. Users such as Chiffonades are remarkably active, and users like Natmunart and Eclipsesong were incredibly quick to retaliate against recent vandalism onslaughts.

Someone, be it myself or someone else who feels confident in having the time to gradually, but consistently, improve the wiki need to take some sort of action. Otherwise, we'll never be able to get anything substantial done constantly dealing with vandalism.