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| - __NOEDITSECTION__ Admin Tools Wiki (ATW) is a Wikia wiki project used primarily for testing Administrator tools. Though most wikis focus on article writing, ATW's primary goal is to give a safe and free environment where anyone can practise anything, without fear of harming the other wikis. Such access is especially beneficial to persons seeking Administrator privileges on another Wikia wiki, or on a Wikimedia Foundation project, who want to acquaint themselves with the tools beforehand. ATW is also useful for those who have been granted Administrator privileges elsewhere and want a safe place to practise without fear of harming the wiki on which they have become a newly minted Administrator. Admin Tools Wiki was originally created by Bluegoblin7 on July 15th, 2008. However, though he created ATW, he never actually edited the wiki due to off-wiki commitments. Thus, RyanCross adopted the wiki two months later hoping to develop ATW to where it could perform as intended. He was committed to the principle of ATW: If (would-be) Administrators "test" here, they will acquire the skills to become competent Administrators on other wikis. Bluegoblin7 returned on September 13, 2008, so that he and RyanCross could develop and coordinate ATW together. A few months later, a new ATW member wanted to request Administrator privileges, but there were no active bureaucrats to consider his/her application. Seeing a void and wanting to keep the project going, Jeff G. stepped up and requested Bureaucrat rights. Granted these rights, he became, for a time, ATW's sole active Bureaucrat. By 2011, Jempcorp and SpikeToronto realised that the wiki needed more Bureaucrats, and so each requested Bureaucrat rights. They were granted these rights and now Jeff G., Jempcorp, and SpikeToronto are the wiki's currently active Bureaucrats.
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