Forum:How does someone become an Admin on a wiki?

I have set the security settings on my wiki's main page to 'Only admins can edit', but I'm wondering, How can someone become an admin. I know that by creating a wiki you become that wiki's admin, but how can others become admins too?

Toothless99


 * Well, you can promote them if you founded the wiki or are a bureaucrat by giving them rights. ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  ☆ 19:17, August 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * To become an admin, a bureaucrat must give a user admin rights by editing Special:UserRights, only bureaucrats can edit user rights. On most wikis, to become an admin, first you must submit a request for adminship and let the community vote to see if you would qualify for an upgrade in user rights. 19:21, August 1, 2010 (UTC) (Edit conflict)


 * A FEW COMMENTS ON PAGE LOCKING - Unless vandalism is a big problem the main page should not be protected from editing by users. The only pages it is reasonable to protect generally are Policy pages, were if a wiki has several users then a discussion should take place prior to changing policys. If a page is vandalised several times by an IP editor than it may be reasonable to set it to Registered users only not to full protection. Do not confuse vandalism with poor or bad edits made in good faith by a new user, which should be discussed with them and reverted. Vandalism can adding complete nonsense repeatedly, removing blocks of content with no edit summary explaining why or adding malicious content (but not in every case). You need to encourage editors to make good additions to the wiki not put them off or stop them editing pages. The Bigger wikis lock the main pages because constant minor changes are non constructive (often based on personal opinion) and the page design and layout has generally been disused by the community and agreed on between the sites active users (and they usually have a page for suggesting improvements attached). You may find some useful info at Help:Administrators' how-to guide and other linked help pages on similar topics related to admins powers used to help make a wiki run smoothly. - BulldozerD11 20:06, August 1, 2010 (UTC)