User blog comment:Xean/What Works for Your Wiki?/@comment-3464779-20110527072932/@comment-1025281-20110528011354

On wikis with a stable community and enough users capable of fulfilling an admin role, I don't think there's anything wrong with promoting inactive admins. You want people who will actually use the rights for maintenance purposes, while keeping the admin list clean. What I have seen in the past on some wikis is a large and unnecessary number of admins for a small wiki, most of them inactive. This results in disputes when an admin that has been inactive for a while returns and finds that the community and prevailing consensus on a lot of matters have changed.