Thread:Manual talk:FAQ/Just Why Temporarily let everyone assign rights to promote your initial user ?/reply (3)

While I also would not recommend to do that on a daily basis, it definitely is helpful in certain edge-cases:

I have ones used this procedure to give myself admin rights again after I had removed all users from the wiki. (Removing all accounts happened on purpose; some were later re-added in some modified way.) However, after that step, I followed exactly this description to give myself admin rights again.