Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25183048-20131221044953/@comment-1330470-20131221051915

Hey fellow Wikivist, er, Wikian, I don't know if Staff would consider this worthy of any exception to policy... they miiiight but I don't know.

I do know that adoption should work: choose a user to become administrator + bureaucrat of the wiki, and have them file an adoption request. Make sure that a very public discussion is performed to show that the community agrees. If everything is in order, someone can be promoted to administrator+bureaucrat (this can be an existing administrator of the wiki, or an unpromoted user).

Normally, 60 days of administrator inactivity is necessary for adoption, but there have been many cases in which wikis in positions similar to your own (bureaucrats inactive, admins active) have been successfully adopted. The key phrase here is community consent.