User blog comment:Sannse/I Want to Be an Admin/@comment-3247345-20140514205120

I guess the best advice I could give would be to prove you're admin material before becoming an admin. Know how things work, be active, and make quality edits over a long period of time. I don't really agree with automatically rejecting someone who asks for the rights if they prove they can do those things beforehand (I've gotten rights that way), but that is how it's done in some places. That said don't just show up with 5 edits and ask for the position.

Another thing I'd say is that if you're looking for an admin avoid rights collectors at all costs. If someone is an admin on 15-20 wikis it means they're not putting in the amount of work that comes with adminship and you can expect them to go inactive once they get the badge. This goes double if they refuse to be productive w/o rights.