User blog comment:Sannse/Before You Adopt/@comment-26479628-20150514201041

The other thing I'd like to bring up is that if you follow the advice of this blog, and work hard on a wiki, a bureaucrat could return, see your work, and be so impressed that they promote you, and you won't need to worry about adoption!

So you can get the rights by working hard, and possibly have a returning bureaucrat promote you, or you can adopt it after doing as much as you possibly can in a regular user role.

Seems like a win-win situation to me. :)