User blog comment:Sannse/I Want to Be an Admin/@comment-3026053-20140514174225

I very much like this post and the idea it represents. Especially the sentence "you don't need to have rights or a profile badge to be helpful". It has been my experience so far that the people who aim for certain rights are the ones that either don't deserve them or will abandon them the quickest because they never wanted them to help, solely to show off. Also, I think it is nicer if others consider you for a position and think you'd be the best user to take care of those responsibilities as opposed to requesting them. Though obviously, nothing is ever black or white, so many of this is also dependent on the local wiki's policies.

I am from the Avatar Wiki and there the administrators are elected out of the pool of rollback users, that being a first hurdle to make sure the possible administrators are experienced users. Secondly, there is a voting procedure to get through where everyone has the chance to ask questions. Sometimes that can be a bit tedious, but in general, it has worked quite well over the past. Though I would not recommend this for smaller wikis as the procedure is too... bulky for that. Smaller wikis offer the chance to deal with these sort of issues in a more amicable situation, which is also nice :-)