Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-6038760-20170427175133/@comment-9605025-20170501224022

If you don't want to have the previous admins/bureaucrats demoted, you could probably just ask Wikia to not demote them when they grant you admin/bureaucrat status. Otherwise, an active bureaucrat (you or otherwise) could always re-instate those that have been demoted.