User blog:DogwoodFlowers/you should probably read this

Hello everybody and welcome to another Minecraft Let's Play video, and another video inside of Stampy's Dogwood's Lovely World, and in this video we're gonna talk about a big wiki problem.

It's August, and school is approaching. For some of us it's a month away, for others it's a matter of weeks or even days- heck, maybe there's someone who's already started the new school year. Or you're like Brams in the southern hemisphere and won't get summer break til it's actually summer. Rip Brams.

The topic I want to bring up is that, as you know, one more year of school will mean one more step up in the amount of work you have. Our admins will be really, really busy with school- way busier than they already are. The only admin carrying us through the 2016-2017 year was Firey (bless you, Firey), and even over this summer, Firey has barely been able to be on. And this is totally understandable! None of you should be putting some internet site above school, because, kids, education is very important. That means that as school hits us all at full swing, we're gonna have no active admins. Of course, you guys probably won't disappear completely, but you also won't be editing much. If I catch any of you prioritizing the wiki above school I will personally glue you to your desk.

Which brings me to the next point if this blog- we need new admins to help carry the wiki through the school year. And, if you guys would let me, I'm more than willing to step up for that role.

I've wanted to be an admin to help out the wiki since February. I didn't want it for just the title or anything, February was about when WFW started to feel really close to me. I've done my best to make myself helpful. Since our staff haven't been very active, if a user has a question for the admins, I move to answer it as soon as possible. I try to keep the wiki in order, and I'm as polite as possible while doing so. A few months ago, I think in May, Fox, Vani/Pumpkin, and I were thinking about this same issue. There were a number of things we felt could be fixed- the background, the home page, and the fact that a lot of suggested projects had been abandoned, such as Comment Trades and Coding Classes. After talking about it a bit, we came to one decision- we could work to be community leaders, and didn't really need the admin title, as Blazey said. We'd wait to see how admin activity picked up during the summer, and, for the time being,  moved to make some of these changes- for example, WFWA's going on, Comment Trades are a thing, and the background has been changed. Wetty also threw in a tab icon (is that what you call it?) for the wiki and changed the plain "Warriors Fanfiction" header in the corner. We also  decided to bring up this topic again around the time school starts, when it would be more pressing. Looking at the calendar, that's right about now.

I want to do the necessities like deleting pages, renaming blogs, and blocking misbehavors, etc., but I also want to step into the role as a leader of this wiki. I owe a lot to the place that's been with me as I went from writing poop to not-poop. I really want to help out, and I feel like I can be of most use easing up the pressure on our current admins and carrying the wiki while they focus on what's important.

TL;DR- I'm secretly an alien queen who's sending an army to take over Planet Earth.

Hope you've all enjoyed your summer, or, for you southern hemisphere dwellers, at least not died during the school year. Cheers!

Bandage your wounds  or let them fester-    i t ' s  y o u r   c h o i c e.