Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4022888-20160122123443/@comment-366087-20160124103711

The mentioned mechanism to promote someone to admin after a period of inactivity of all admins is obsolete.

On rare occasions I have seen Staff come in and decide that similarly inactive/unresponsive 'crats and admins are not performing in the best interests of a wikia's growth, which is their basic role in a wikia. Usually the decision is for a wikia Adoption by an admin or User for rights, and is usually a case of promoting someone without removing others. However attempts to contact the missing administration needs to be established. Generally by several messages by more than one user and with reasonable time given for the other to respond.

So my suggestion is for the active admin to make such efforts to contact the 'crat if they haven't already; start a thread to discuss with the community about who should be granted bureaucrat rights for at least a week; then open an Adoption request. An Admin already in place has a better chance of gaining the additional rights under these conditions than a user.