Thread:Jackboog21/@comment-37396810-20181121060543/@comment-8846246-20181121092526

Well, it's a long story and possibly a bit unusual for Wikia (if I had to guess). Despite being in charge of the Wiki, I'm not the founder and never adopted the wiki.

Instead, the founder promoted me about a week after I joined. My first communication with him was to improve our infoboxes, few days later I was randomly promoted to admin (not Bureaucrat).

My first order of business was to help reduce a HUGE spamming and trolling problem we had. I created some basic rules, which included no swearing.

Eventually, I formed some rules for running for staff. The only exception to the requirements were him and me, since we predated the rules.

When it came time to promote someone, I asked for Bureaucrat rights, which I was given. Not long after this, his activity went down drastically and people started referring to me as the "head admin" because I was far more active, despite me technically being under the founder at the time.

Eventually, a bunch of drama happened where he at random, promoted his sister (or girlfriend, or a sockpuppet, it wasn't clear but what was clear is it was weird.), to admin because he was apparently going on a trip...which made no sense considering he didn't do much and I've always been active.

The drama comes in because he no-longer had the ability to just promoted someone without a community vote. So some drama later and he quits, a bit of an overreaction to the community saying "you can't just promote your sister without a vote".

Effectively, him quitting put me in charge of the wiki and that's how it's been for years now. Well, until this year.

Until early this year, I'm was pretty much in charge of everything except picking the staff (as the community voted on that).

I decided that if I quit, there's nothing stopping someone corrupt from just doing whatever they want. So I, along with Travid (the former Head Content Mod) and Grapeleaf (the former Discussion Mod) had a long meeting about creating two councils, the first taking almost all of my power and the other for the people to voice their concerns and suggestions.

Awhile later, the Council of Administration and the Council of the People were formed.

The COA is where the Wiki's true authority currently lies, except when it gets suspended (in which case the Head Bureaucrat is given additional powers). The COTP meets more often and can suggest things to the COA.

And that's a somewhat detailed history (a lot of glossing over was done, but this can't go on forever) of how I became the Head Bureaucrat, COA presider.

To answer your second question, which editor are you using? It's different depending on which one. Source editor is the best, but can be a bit complicated at first.