Thread:The1AndOnlyMike/@comment-38434996-20190208214029/@comment-444327-20190212003816

It was over a year ago now so my memory may be a tad hazy. But I guess the best way to explain how I became an Admin is to give you my full life story.

I came across this wiki in the early days of Slime Rancher when it was still in Early Access, April 2016. But I didn't properly contribute until exactly a year after my first edit, which was when Slime Science had just been introduced.

The reason I began contributing was because Slime Rancher is a good game, and by the same developers - and musician - of Spiral Knights no less; a game I'd previously invested over 3,000 hours in. I'd seen too many games that have wikis with incomplete information, and while this one was substantial there were a few glaring issue pages. I still remember what the Treasure Pods page looked like before I re-did it.

My first major project was a group effort between myself and fellow users Primal Groudon and Kalkrona; together we split the Food page; at the time they were all on the same page and kept in tabbers. The Slimes page was already split, so we used that page as a basis for the layout. After that I don't remember much in great detail, but I remained active and kept adding stuff to the site using the Runescape Wiki as inspiration (fun fact: that's where most of my layout ideas actually came from), and helped to try and keep order where I could. For a long time Emerald was the sole Admin; the Founder and other Admin both went inactive, so neither of us had full access to the site. He adopted the site by becoming a Beureaucrat, and people asked for me to become an Admin. The rest is history.

Thinking back on it, it was actually rather nice of them to do that for me.