Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-484496-20140521002934/@comment-856287-20140601194853

Make a good effort to contact all current bureaucrats and ask them to make you an admin there (pointing out your contributions). You can adopt an abandoned wiki, but adoption requires that admins be inactive for at least 60 days, which is not true in this case. Try, try, and try again to contact any and all of them. If you get a reply, hopefully they will promote a new admin. If not, you'll have a little more evidence that they truly aren't interested in managing the wiki when you post your adoption request (only after they have all been inactive for 60 days, of course).

Be clear when you contact them: "I think this wiki needs new admins, and I think User:X would be a good choice. If I don't hear back from you, I am going to try to adopt this wiki myself, but I would rather get your response instead."

Wikia staff are not going to step in and change the leadership of a wiki just because it's not being run the way you would prefer (even if it's not being run very well). The current admins have to be inactive for it to even be considered.

If all else fails, you can create a competing wiki on the same topic and run it however you like, but obviously it would be better if you could convince an existing bureaucrat to promote a new admin. Who knows, maybe when you leave a message on an old, inactive bureaucrat's wall, they will come log in again just to promote you to admin.