User blog comment:Poseidon133/What is the Difference between Admin and Bearucrat/@comment-5448890-20130819033417

Bureaucrats are more-or-less a rights-giving usergroup, designed so that wikis can continue to prosper with the addition of new admins-a bureaucrat is also trusted to make major decisions on most wikis. Administrators keep up the editing and technical aspects of a wiki, usually.