Thread:Mark Otaris/@comment-32027161-20180105151757/@comment-4360159-20180108200158

Adoption is used to introduce new administrators to a wiki (to maintain articles, and block vandals, etc.) if the wiki is otherwise neglected by its current administration; there is no need for adoption if a wiki has other active administrators.

Ajedi32 was the first and only person to go through the wiki adoption process in 2009/2010 as the wiki had no other active administrators then. That said, you can say a figurative torch has been passed on to bureaucrats (who are able to promote users). First to Colgatecity, then to Mark Otaris, and now present day.