User blog comment:Sannse/Navigating the Wilds of Adminship/@comment-5011827-20130802012516/@comment-413936-20130804065855

I admin what I'd call a smaller wiki (monthly editors is maybe in the 10 - 20 range by my estimate on the Hunik Wiki), and all of our admins were chosen through completely different methods. One person who was also made a bureaucrat in the early days had ended up vandalizing much of the wiki (before finally being blocked). I randomly checked the wiki years after my first appearance to find myself made a bureaucrat at that time as the other person and to find the founding bureaucrat to be inactive. Two other admins were chosen as there was a lot of vandalism and were considering adopting the wiki (as I was not yet aware that I was a bureaucrat myself). Our fourth and most recent admin was nominated by the administrative council, being the only current admin to actually be nominated on our Requests for adminship page. The only self-nomination I can recall was denied due to having made virtually no edits and most of those being counter-productive.