User blog comment:Sannse/Navigating the Wilds of Adminship/@comment-5011827-20130802012516/@comment-5884303-20130802024659

The best process is by having a Request for Rights page (RfR). This is used on many large wikis, even on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation websites. For a good example look through w:c:lego:Brickipedia:User rights/Requests.