Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-44393692-20191211000144/@comment-9605025-20191211042418

Recruitment for global user groups and meta-wiki local user groups (let's call these groups "special groups") is done as needed. The need is determined by current members, staff, and, potentially, members of other special groups that work closely with the special group conducting recruitment (let's call these users "recruiters"). The criteria, nomination process, and decision process are all behind closed doors; known and executed by only the recruiters. When a decision on candidates is made, staff individually contact each candidate via their registered email account. The candidate must then decide whether to accept or decline the "promotion". Some special groups do provide guidelines for users aspiring to join their ranks. However, these are just guidelines; not a rule book or checklist.

The one exception I know of is Community Council (users with the "Councilor" tag in their user masthead). As far as I am aware, this group does not have any special permissions except access to the Community Council wiki where they can test experimental features and provide feedback; both on the experimental features and on changes to FANDOM in general. Unlike the other special groups, it is supposedly possible to self-nominate. This would mean that the nomination process is not entirely closed-door. While I cannot verify this, I can say that I have seen both old-timers and newcomers as members; so there doesn't seem to be any requirement with regards to how long one has been on FANDOM.