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

Here's something I've been asking myself for a looooong time: Why isn't it possible for an admin to give someone else temporary admin rights? I understand that only crats can make other people admins and by and large that policy makes sense. But I'm not that kind of admin. I've never been admin "for real" anwhere and that's well and good and fine with me. But I'm the kind of person people frequently bring in to do a certain job - usually a technical job - occasionally an artistic one. And I usually need access to the MediaWiki files for that. It would be perfectly fine if that access would get revoked automatically after a day.

So why is there no such thing as temporary adminship?

(To give you an example, here's one of those discussions that I have rather frequently: Thread:450377. Only this time I was lucky enough to talk to a crat.)