Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-27689042-20170830163212/@comment-26126721-20171008014519

Edit: I found this that sums up your question: "To request to become an administrator, a user must first be nominated by an existing administrator, to ensure that adminship requests are only created for experienced contributors who understand the policies. Users can ask an administrator to nominate them. If the administrator accepts, either the administrator or the user can start a public discussion on the wiki management forum board for the community to decide whether the user will become an administrator. The administrator right will only be given if consensus forms that the user should become an administrator. The bureaucrat right may only be given to an existing administrator, and after consensus forms in a similar community discussion. Users who request permissions are expected to explain why they should be trusted and why giving them the permissions is useful. Requests of removal of user rights of other users work in the same way, but users who have not made edits to the wiki for more than a year may have rights removed without discussion."

- Mark Otaris, Respectfully