Right now there's a few issues going on over on Sonic and Sega Retro. Their mediawiki installations are running into issues, and there's not enough staff members online to fix the problems going on. Having a large site is quite a feat for any webmaster, but having one as large as this can become a headache at times. There's multiple Mediawiki installs for a few different websites. Sega Retro covers topics regarding Sega as a whole, Sonic Retro covers everything Sonic related and there's a few other websites that are sister sites called NEC Retro, and Retro CDN that are all on the same server. What happens when there's only a few technical Admins and the Wiki Sysops don't have backend access to Mediawiki? Things break, servers become overloaded and overall it's not a good time for the users trying to edit the site. What can be a good solution for this problem? Hire technical admins to focus on specific sites at a time. I know lots of us talk about wanting to own a large site, but are you actually prepared for situations like this? I have been a member on Sonic Retro for almost 16 years, and was always under the impression that Wiki Sysops were able to access the backend of Mediawiki but it seems they only have full editing permissions and that's it. It's so bad that one of the wiki sysops are actually hinting at one of the Admins to possibly promote a few Tech members to help out. (Note tech members are those with profecient knowledge of how various Sonic and Sega games work. They're not staff members.) Have you ever came across this on any of the websites you browse? Have you ever ran into this problem before on your own websites?
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