Thread:PBSNickDisneyFan2000/@comment-961279-20180119165911/@comment-961279-20180120183915

The question of who "owns" a wiki has several answers. Some are counter-intuitive or not obvious.


 * The legal owner of a wiki is Fandom/Wikia since they run the servers for the wikis and the licensing on each edit says they can do what they want with all edits that are made.
 * The person who created the wiki could be considered to own it, but I have no idea who that was. The earliest edit I can find right now is back in 2007, but it doesn't give a clue as to who created the wiki. The user rights log doesn't help, either.
 * The effective owners of a wiki would be the administrators since they can help organize it, perform maintenance and provide guidance to other users. However, there is the view on some wikis that admins shouldn't consider themselves "in charge". They should be regular users that have some extra abilities to do cleanup.

Even if you were going to point to one person and say, "They're the owner and they are in charge", if they're not doing their job, then they give up being able to say that they're the owner and are in charge.