User blog comment:Sannse/I Want to Be an Admin/@comment-33628828-20140515183134

I must say, the whole attitude that you can't ask to be an admin (or even think about being one it seems) is a pretty strange one to me. I've been active on many large projects on Wikia, and almost all have some sort of requests for adminship system which allows for self-nomination. This is obviously different from showing up on a wiki and demanding to be made an admin with no edits there, but still, it shows that requesting adminship yourself isn't always a bad thing.

What has been said below is also true; you can contribute to a wiki without being an admin. The most important part of a wiki is the encyclopedia - the content that draws in readers. Part of the wiki philosophy is that anyone can contribute to that encyclopedia. Rather than being seen as any sort of position of importance, admins should exist to manage the technical aspects of the project so that the encyclopedia part is of the utmost quality.

But wanting to be an admin isn't a bad thing. Not everyone is very good at contributing content, or likes doing it. And ultimately, we are all volunteering our time online, and that experience should be a rewarding one for us. There are people who legitimately enjoy doing the maintenance and technical work required to remove vandalism and generally keep the encyclopedia worth reading (editing the wiki's skin, organizing the community so that more people are there to write the encyclopedia, etc). The problems come from people who simply want the status symbol of being an admin, and who don't do the associated work. And unfortunately, with profile tags and various lists and such, it is easy for people to perceive it as a status symbol.