Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26037236-20151001224913

I'm interested in the history of a wiki I admin on, and I discovered a strange anomaly from a very long time ago (2009 to be exact). I found this user, who successfully adopted the wiki on August 12th 2009.

Since the adoption requirements were almost identical to what it is now (I checked), I found it odd that someone acquired the rights with just 5 edits, and all on one day. I decided to dig further and found the archived adoption requests for that time period. Strangely, no adoption request was ever submitted, at least not on Community Central anyway that I could find.

I'm curious as to if there was some other way of adoption being allowed, particularly to a user who was barely active. And if not, I'd love to know how this adoption was allowed to happen. Since it was from six years ago, and the staff member involved has moved on, I realize that I may never be able to find out what happened.

But I figured there's no harm in asking you guys just in case you guys may be able to find an answer. If not, hopefully you at least found this interesting. 