User talk:John Avery Whitaker

Um, well, what is the wiki about? Perhaps you could provide a link to it?

Anyway, one of the first things to do is to write a good set of rules. I don't know how it is nowadays when you create a wiki; if there is already a page with rules/policies, but if there isn't, then create a page named [the name of the site]: Site rules, or something like that. Then decide what rules you want. The most basic rules would be: no vanlizing, no spamming, no trolling, watch you language, be kind to each other, etc. If there is already a page with the "default" rules, then I'd suggest that you read through it carefully, and then you can do any changes which you find necessary.

After that, you should take a look at the main page. Make sure that there is at least one link to the rules, and maybe the community portal as well. That should be the most important thing to do when setting up the wiki.

Next step is to promote the wiki. As I said, I don't know what the wiki is about, but I suppose that you could tell people you know about it, or if you are active on any forums that are related to the topic of the wiki, you could tell people about it there. Make sure that people know about the wiki.

After a while, if/when the wiki has grown so big that you can't patrol all of the activity, it might be time to promote a few users to admins. You should select the most trusted users, and ask them if they are interested in becoming administrators. If they are, you can promote them with this tool: Special:UserRights. (You won't be able to use it on this wiki, but just go to the same page on your own wiki, and you should be able to use it, since you are, or should be, in the bureaucrat user group.

I hope that helped. -  M ata N ui    Talk  16:24, March 28, 2011 (UTC)

I won't be able to talk right now maybe tommorow. Sorry


 * OK. I haven't heard of that show before, so I don't think I can help more. But if you have any other questions about administrating the wiki, feel free to ask me. ;)
 * Abou tthe trivia contest, I'm not sure. It depends on when it is.

Re: Greg
Not as far as I know. -  M ata N ui    Talk  14:27, March 30, 2011 (UTC)

I won't be able to talk gotta go.John Avery Whitaker 20:38, April 1, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Apology
It OK, I just think that everyone should let us administrators handle this. Tuma55 is no threat at the moment, and if he would become one, we'd take care of it. -  M ata N ui    Talk  17:45, April 17, 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry, could you explain further? My mind doesn't seem to be working correctly today. I don't really understand what you said. -  M <font color="#abc">ata <font color="#259">N <font color="#abc">ui    <font color="#259">Talk  15:24, May 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * No. Haven't heard of it. -  <font color="#259">M <font color="#abc">ata <font color="#259">N <font color="#abc">ui    <font color="#259">Talk  10:41, May 29, 2011 (UTC)

Welcome
Welll... I guesss you haven't really gotten a welcome have you?

I'll get one...

Here.

If there was a reason you didn't recieve one in the past tell me and I'll take this off...

<font face="Symbol">M a V ^ e p |_ e w a 12:04, June 22, 2011 (UTC)

Re:The Race
It's OK. -  <font color="#259">M <font color="#abc">ata <font color="#259">N <font color="#abc">ui    <font color="#259">Talk  17:54, June 23, 2011 (UTC)

Mata Nui is out for a while do you need something. Kazi22 17:11, July 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Right, I will be back in about ten days. Right now, I'm in a library. I hope that it's not urgent. -  <font color="#259">M <font color="#abc">ata <font color="#259">N <font color="#abc">ui    <font color="#259">Talk  13:46, July 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm not very good at helping with those things, but I think that the best way to learn is to see how other people do it, and learn from that. If you want learn to run a site, I suggest you look at how other people run and organize their sites. But just show the way to this wiki where you are the leader, and I'll see what I can do. -  <font color="#259">M <font color="#abc">ata <font color="#259">N <font color="#abc">ui    <font color="#259">Talk  16:35, August 4, 2011 (UTC)

RE: Copper Mask
Go ahead and put one up! I enjoyed playing the trivia challenge. You came up with good questions.

The bionicle  legend  03:07, August 1, 2011 (UTC)