User blog comment:Sannse/Choosing the Right Admins/@comment-4356266-20140803203825

My first taste of adminship was almost 3 years ago - I only asked for rollback rights as I try to clean up a mess of a wiki it was (I'm not going to disclose what wiki right away) but was granted adminship by a bureaucrat. I'm actually glad it turned out that way - pretty soon I found myself learning CSS and JS and the wiki has never been the same with all the bells and whistles that I implemented.

A few more admins since then were promoted since then, and it gradually become apparent that over time admins diverge from their appointed task - one was appointed so that he can do a better job of integrating something he worked on into our wiki (in the form of flash-based polls) but we soon found ourselves dealing with vandalism and whatnot.

I've also ventured into adopting a few wikis with the same admin, one of them is the Inglourious Basterds Wiki but sadly our enthusiasms don't last long (not to mention we aren't exactly a big fan of the sunject matter of the wiki and only adopt it because our base wiki and the adopted wiki have a few things in common) and currently 99.5% of the edits are done by a third admin we appointed.

tl;dr, giving the right people admin rights can help immensely into their self-learning of web development stuff such as CSS and JS. On the other hand adopting a wiki and continue what the last admin left off (barely anything in my case) can be daunting unless you're super-knowledgeable about the subject matter and able to have a lot to write.