Thread:Karmazynowy Wilk/@comment-1932315-20151205113541/@comment-5818471-20151205233925

Hey there, it's nice to hear from you, I hope you've been well.

I realised a while ago that most of the admins have been quite inactive, though the same applies to contributors here in general. It's a depressing pattern that I noticed occurs with practically all things which were created in anticipation of an upcoming game/book/film/etc. - the same has happened at the Last Light forum (possibly my favourite online community) despite of all our efforts to prevent it; it's a bit of a graveyard now with just a few ghosts like me and other old-timers floating about if you have a look. Without any big new projects or otherwise exciting news, things like these are destined to die or at least be subjected to lengthy interludes of stagnation. And sadly we haven't heard much from 4A at all lately (fingers crossed those rumours about an open world Metro game turn out to be true... and as soon as possible).

Nevertheless, you and the others have done a brilliant job by turning this wikia into what it is today: the best place on the internet to find information about the Metro 2033 games in any language, which is really impressive considering the project's foreign roots and the fact that it really isn't as popular in the West as it is in Eastern Europe. I really appreciate the amount of time and work that was put into making this possible. You're like veteran stalkers, going the extra mile to gain more insight about these subjects in a region where it is harder to do so.

And I'm flattered by what you're saying, since I have not been so active either. Back when I joined I put some effort into categorising the articles, then I moved on to tweaking random pages and uploaded plenty of screenshots for gas masks and weapons, but since the decline in activity on the Metro Wiki most of my time has been spent on the Universe of Metro 2033 article and related pages. Sometimes I also check the edits made by other contributors to see if there's no vandalism or poor but good-intentioned edits. However, many other (anonymous and registered) users - some multiple times, others only by chipping in once - have also helped preserve much of this website's greatness.

I would love to become an admin of the Metro Wiki as it's a franchise that I just absolutely adore. However, I doubt I would be able to pursue any significantly large projects due to my own real life time-consumers (among other things, I'm currently trying to get a degree and "trying" is probably the most accurate word to use haha). Nevertheless, in such a scenario I'd probably continue doing what I'm doing and would feel only more obliged to do so. The only problem is that I don't know if I'm 100% familiar with the other duties that I'd have to fulfil as an admin. Provided that you would give me a very basic rundown of the hidden admin gizmos and what buttons I have to press, I'd be happy to accept.

Sorry, I just realised how long this response has become.