User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Update: May 17, 2011/@comment-3312380-20110519121816/@comment-1656630-20110519165943

It sounds like there's some confusion about auto wiki adopt. Let me clear a few things up:

- this is ONLY for small wikis that don't have a lot of content/edits on them. I believe the threshold they're experimenting with is 1000 total edits. If it's more than that, the wiki will not use the auto adopt system. we'll continue to handle adoptions manually for those cases for now.

- if there are *any* admins with *any* current activity on the wiki, the wiki is not up for adoption. no one will lose their rights. this is only for ones that appear to be abandoned.

- admins do get warnings if they've been inactive for 14 days & for 27 days if there are no other active admins.

- when someone adopts the wiki, the previous admins will retain their admin rights. their bureaucrat status, however, will be removed, and given to the adopter. this is about changing who can make admin decisions to someone who is more active, and removing the likelihood of a conflict if a former bureaucrat returns after a long absence.

- if someone ever uses this system maliciously to "steal a wiki", you can just tell us, and we'll revert the changes. it's *only* for cases when the previous bureaucrat is no longer interested in the wiki.

does that explain everything, or are there still questions? throw 'em at me!