Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-7927289-20130514224851/@comment-4018164-20130515051428

First of all, Bureucrat rights can be given by other Bureucrats. If you create a new wiki you automatically become a Bureaucrat, so there is no need for that.

In case you want to become a bureaucrat in a wiki that their admins and bureaucrats were not active in the last few months, you can ask to adopt this wiki.

If you want to become a Bureaucrat in a wiki with activity, you first should have Admin rights. I'm not sure whether it's a requirement, but this way the wiki's community can know better the user that wants those rights.

You can earn Admin and Bureucrat rights by contributing a lot to the wiki. Your wiki may have a request page for those rights or a vote page, or something similar.

Anyway, just a peice of advice, if this wiki already has 3-4 active bureucrates, or perhaps even 5 if it's bigger, i highly recommend waiting with it. This privilege is very powerful; Wikia's wikis are not as big as Wikipedia, and having too many users with Bureaucrat rights in a single wiki may cause conflicts. In this situation- teh Admin rights do about everything that Bureucrats can do- beside promoting admins and bureaucrats.