User blog comment:Sannse/Before You Adopt/@comment-166269-20150515051358

For those looking at inactive wikis, I've got a couple tips that can help with investigation a bit: first, when looking at Recent Changes, you can edit the parameters in the URL to expand the range of edits shown past the options shown on the page; I frequently do this with very inactive wikis that haven't been edited in the past 30 days, usually by extending the window to 300 days instead (you can't go arbitrarily far back with this, but I think you can get over 1000 days back, if memory serves). And second, as a shortcut for viewing the admins/bureaucrats on a wiki, you can visit or type in Special:ListAdmins (though this doesn't do anything about the edit number cutoff; you'll still have to change that to view any admins that have only done a token few edits (perhaps that's an improvement staff could look into? *nudge wink*)).

If you're sure you want to adopt a wiki but it isn't technically available for adoption because an admin still edits periodically, ask them directly on their talk page about it. If they don't ever respond to your message (especially if they do make further edits afterwards), the fact that you tried to contact them and they never answered can be used to support a later adoption or Special:Contact request (though I'm not a staff member, so no one should take this as any sort of guarantee that this will help any particular request).