Board Thread:SmashWiki Business/@comment-8-20130820204412/@comment-1740234-20130822020109

I think the large issue here has to do with the concept of forking and wiki "control".

Many of the "past" users have stayed back to serve as janitorial sysops, and until a large enough community forms to require additional users with administrator powers, there is no reason to hand such powers to the most active user of the particular week (an example would be the user Conker's Bad Fur day, who was active for a few months but has long since abandoned this wiki). If anything, our desire to keep "control" over this wiki is for the benefit of any future community; if we were to simply abandon the place you would have chaos, few active users, and the trusting of admin powers in the wrong area.

The proposal to turn this wiki into a fanon one was intended to expand the community here, and give incentive for new users to arrive and contribute additional information. While that has happened to a large degree, the problem is that most of those users did not stay at this wiki long enough to be truly part of any "community". In recent months, we have further tried to assist this wiki in finding a potential community by offering up a poll to change the wiki's name. While a majority of users favored a name change, Wikia does not seem to have followed this up, and likely this has contributed to much of the frustration above.