Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25523075-20150607080852/@comment--20150607090131

2Actimv wrote:

There are big wikis where people do that when they become inactive. However on small wikis it doesn't happen that much :) That is true! But in this case, the user removed their own rights, several times it seems. It's just something I can't understand lol, because I never really touch my own rights to play with.

And by the way Philipp, you do not need to adopt the Wikia you are currently trying to adopt. You removed your rights from yourself, again, and need to contact Staff via Special:Contact. The second Wiki you linked, as RainingPain said already, you were never a  bureaucrat, so you can't appoint anyone admin, unless your friends promoted you to  bureaucrat. They recently edited too, so you can't adopt that Wikia either.