Thread:Semanticdrifter/@comment-69.113.124.107-20170805125202/@comment-31420862-20170805140111

Jackninja5DipperGravityFalls wrote: Aiihuan wrote: By adopting the wiki, you could be able to gain administrator rights without a bureaucrat of that wiki granting them to you - that is, however, if the wiki in question and you meet criteria for adoption. See Help:Adopting a community for more information. :) Staff would still promote you in that sense though. Indeed. However, presuming by their wording, it seems to me that the poster of thread is asking if it is possible to gain administrator rights without a local bureaucrat granting them to one. I could be wrong in my understanding, though.