Help:Adopting a community

The process of adopting a wikia is one where a user who contributes to a particular wikia can request administrator and bureaucrat rights in the absence of other admins and bureaucrats. This allows them to "adopt" the wikia and become its new administrator.

What is wikia adoption?
A wikia adoption is a process where a user who contributes to a particular wikia can become that wiki's new administrator. Using the on Community Central, a user can put in a new request. If it is approved, that user will receive administrator and bureaucrat rights on the wikia.

What are the guidelines?
The guidelines are simple! You need to be an active, good faith contributor to the wikia who has shown regular activity building the wikia over a period of at least a week. The wikia that you want to become an administrator of needs its administrator(s) to have been inactive for at least 60 days, and you cannot have adopted a wikia in the last month either. There can be exceptions to this in certain cases, but generally this rule is followed.

Additionally, if there are other users on the wiki, you should first talk to them so the entire community has a say in who the next admin should be. The best way to do that for one or two users is a message on their walls or talk pages; for more users please start a blog or forum post. Once that discussion has been held, the request can be placed.

For a full list of guidelines, please see the.

How do I adopt?
Follow these simple steps and you will be on your way to adopting a wikia!


 * 1) First, head over to the.
 * 2) Once there, be sure to read over the adoption guidelines to make sure you are eligible to adopt the wikia, and the wikia is eligible to be adopted.
 * 3) If you are eligible, scroll down and click "Create new request."
 * 4) Answer the questions that appear so the staff member who reviews your request has a bit more information.
 * 5) If there is already a request for your wikia, simply put "My Wiki Name (2)" (or 3, or 4...) in the "Name of wikia" field.
 * 6) Click “submit” and your request will be online!

Once your request is made, please allow 7-10 days for a reply from a staff member. Official replies will come from a member of the, who will have in their signatures.

When your request is reviewed by a staff member, it will be marked as either "on hold" or "completed." A request placed on hold means that the staff member is looking for more information or you need to do something else to meet the adoption criteria. On hold requests can be found. Completed requests are requests that have been approved, declined for not meeting the guidelines, or closed for some other reason. Completed requests can be found.

If you have any questions about the resolution of your completed request, please do not leave them on the request itself -- staff will not see them there. Please leave a message on the wall of the staff member who answered the request instead.

Likewise, do not "re-open" a closed request. Create a new one if you wish to re-start the adoption process.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

 * You do not need to adopt a wikia in order to merge it with another, larger wikia. Please see Help:Merging wikis for more information on how to merge wikis, or ask a staff member for guidance.
 * You do not need to adopt a wikia that you yourself founded. You already have admin and bureaucrat rights.
 * You may adopt a wikia to gain bureaucrat rights when you are already the admin there.
 * Adopting a wikia does not remove the rights of previous admins.
 * Adopting a wikia does not give you a "founder" tag on your user masthead. Only the person who created the wikia has that tag.

Next Pages

 * Help:Administrators' how-to guide
 * Help:Bureaucrats' how-to guide

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