Thread:Johnnybravo44/@comment-4651179-20121117225008/@comment-1713281-20121118044907

Sorry John, I'll be eavesdropping if you don't mind ;)

I think it's common knowledge that Nathan/PeteParker isn't as active as he once was. He's a father with a (admittedly cool) full-time job, and personal life has to come first. That being said, I think it's also common knowledge that Natahan was our bot guru. We've attempted to program bots in his absence (if I'm not mistaken, Kevin/ArtfulDodger had some mild success with this), but it honestly is a very steep learning curve, as bots have to be programmed from scratch in most cases. And starting up a bot with even one slip up in program language can devestate a large number of pages in a matter of minutes.

As I mentioned, Kevin tinkered with this a bit, and I believe his outcome was the ability to rename pages and categories, but all links and related images would have to move over manually (but don't quote me on it). The other option that has been presented is simply renaming everything (article, appearances, images, article links, etc.) by hand, one by one. Both of these options are far from adequate for a wiki our size, especically when dealing with realities with a large amount of content (which this one clearly has), but we, along with Earth-80920, are stuck in place for the moment until we can perfect a bot.

Or until Wikia starts paying admins a salary, at which point Nathan can just hang around here full time.