User blog:RRabbit42/Potential adoption in the future

December 9, 2021:

Yesterday while looking at the 2020 story arcs and trying to figure out how to accurately track the how each comic was release through the three websites before being put into Thumb Life, I started taking notes on how to simply what would appear on each page. I still don't have that worked out because the method has to also account for using placeholders until the next book is released.

What I do have worked out is I'm a lot more invested in this than I thought it would be and that means it's time to officially start the adoption process. I'm going to leave AnyFace one more message on GoComics but I have a feeling I won't get an answer to it, either. I think they're more interested in participating in the comments for each comic and not here any more.

Commenting is open until Thursday, December 16. The adoption request will go in the following morning.

Some of the following is outdated now that this is an active adoption, but it's here for reference.


 * Background

I found this wiki in April 2018, and since the time it was created a few months earlier, it's been just myself and AnyFace working on it. They had been quite active, but their last edit was July 16, 2018 and hasn't responded to messages yet. However, they are currently active on the GoComics website, including commenting on recent comics of in SECURITY, so it doesn't seem to be that they've lost interest in it. Maybe something came up in real life and they just haven't returned yet, or maybe they thought that since I was here, I could handle it. There doesn't seem to be a way to send a message to them directly on GoComics.com without replying to one of their comments.

I didn't do a lot after October 2018. I made two edits between then and Dec. 2019, and after that was about 15 edits in 2020. I'm not exactly racking up the edit counts, either.

This past year has been a bit different. I've been working on things more on my own than before. I've completed the adoptions of wikis that my main reason for doing it was to stop vandalism. I'm getting back into "building mode" where I'm starting to work on wikis again because it's something I want, rather than have to or it's required.

Building mode includes creating a couple of new wikis, one of which is the You've Gotta Be Kitten Me!!! Wiki for Bea R.'s companion comic to in SECURITY. There are also wikis I will adopt later, but the adoption rules changed. You have to wait longer before you're eligible again (3 months instead of 2) and if you become an admin anywhere, it resets the timer. You have to choose more carefully which adoptions come first.


 * Future

It's becoming apparent that this wiki will have to be adopted in order for it to grow. I'm going to work on this in two directions concurrently. First, send a message to AnyFace here and on GoComics to request bureaucrat rights so that I can help them run this wiki, or see if they would like to turn it over to me. Second, I'm going to start working on the wiki more consistently so I can get it into shape in case an adoption request has to be submitted. I would be just as happy if someone else comes forward to lead the way, but I'm willing if no one else is available.

The timing is going to start off slow. There's something on another wiki that I need to get finished by Wednesday, December 1st. After that, I'm going to start doing research into how each comic was released to match up the Webtoon and Tapas versions to GoComics and to the books. Last time I looked at it, some were in different orders (mostly in the book, if I remember right) and the story arc titles are available on Webtoon. (See the List of story arcs.) After that, work begins on the wiki to add in that information and set up frameworks for each arc and character. As a rough guess, it would probably be around January 2022 that the serious work in preparation for adoption would begin.


 * To do

That's what I've got planned. Regardless of how this plays out, here's the other things that need to be worked on:
 * Two new themes. The daytime mode for the theme has become black text on a black background so you can't see the links at the top of the page. Switching to nighttime mode makes it readable.
 * The wiki needs to be renamed. People aren't going to search for a "Sam and Sedine" wiki. They will search for an "in security" wiki.
 * Likewise, the URL needs to be changed from "sam-and-sedine.fandom.com". The old redirect of in-security.wikia.com to here still works, but having it as "in-security.fandom.com" should improve search engine results.
 * Continue with reducing links to other sites. Some has been done but not all. Any external links like for Wikipedia's info on what a garbage truck is or the "Safety Dance" music video need to be removed because when you send someone to a different website to get info, they may not come back.
 * We need to start from the beginning of the comic strips and fill out the history and events of the characters. That means there needs to be more than just me doing it.

There may be more, but that gets us started.