User blog comment:Catgirlpikachufan/Ok, so I was thinking about adoption, but I need to know what it is...../@comment-25014407-20200713015621

You can promote users by reading the help page on Help:User rights and Help:Administrators how-to guide. An adoption is required when there is no active moderation and you (or someone else) wants to get admin rights so that the wiki or wiki's moderation can get active again.