User blog comment:Cosmicsilver/State of the Wiki/@comment-3492791-20141021004138

I have to agree about the lack of active staff members. Things have been kind of stagnate for a while, but since your promotion we've been speeding things up a lot. I am certainly grateful for that. However Volk really hasn't had much of a presence recently, so I don't know if he could be considered "fully active". I certainly think we could use more admins as you'd have to spread yourself pretty thin to manage everything going on, especially if we continue with these renovations.

I'm not sure about the requirement of "Unanimous backing". I mean i'm sure that anyone actually worthy of these positions would not be contested, but still having the entire moment block by one disgruntled user doesn't sit well. This will become an even bigger issue if we intend to grow the staff. This also requires that the entire staff be available to give their opinion, which we just discussed is a problem.

I don't have much to say about discussions. People will, or they won't, we can't force them. I try to put in a word or two on anything relating to the wiki, but these discussions stagnate because without any new opinions there's nothing to discuss.

As I said a while back, the Manual of Style has been a mess for a long time. Before I try writing anything new about it i'd have to read over the existing policy extensively, and I haven't really made the time for that. If we took that on as a community project, it would certainly encourage me to put in the effort.