Thread:The Ultimate Thinker/@comment-5785681-20140927173507/@comment-26479628-20140927175435

JosephHawk wrote: An adoption is when a user is requesting admin and/or bureaucratic rights on a certain wiki. If they meet the requirements, Staff will give the user the rights. An adopter will only receive admin/bureaucratic rights.

If you are already a bureaucrat, you can promote yourself to admin, thus avoiding an adoption. ;-)