User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Tips for being a great admin/@comment-3508190-20121028142656/@comment-166269-20121028161937

Hey Pecoes, nice to see you again. =)

I would say, as long as you have a publicly-documented request for help that will obviously require admin powers, and you have good reason to believe that waiting for a bureaucrat to promote you (or an admin to perform the necessary changes) will take too long (or whatever), it would be perfectly reasonable to submit a Special:Contact request (including all the pertinent details, of course) to have Wikia staff temporarily sysop you on the wiki in question. Of course, I would also say that I'm not a Wikia representative any more than any other random editor is, and so this may not actually work. =)