User blog comment:Merrystar/Adopting a wikia/@comment-26037236-20150618082106/@comment-12613595-20150618100224

Unfortunately that happens quite a lot. The bureaucrats/admins become inactive and with that, the wiki stagnates and the users begin to leave. Since bureaucrat rights can only be removed by Staff, any other user (even bureaucrats and admins) are unable to remove them. So they just stay there, inactive with there rights. Since the wikis become abandoned there is no one there to call Staff to remove the rights.

And there´s these cases. It´s really good to see the final results of an adoption and see how an abandoned wiki is now prospering.