Thread:Project:Support desk/Becoming administrator/reply (2)

It depends on the wiki. I'm not exactly familiar with how it's handled on Wikimedia since I've never witnessed a situation like that. On Wikia, they have "adoption requests" which allow for users to adopt a wiki and become administrator if the existing bureaucrats are gone. On independent wikis, generally there isn't much of a way to become an administrator. If the bureaucrats are all gone from the wiki, there's no real way for you to be given adminship unless you can somehow get a hold of a bureaucrat on the wiki. You can try contacting them on their talk page or using Special:EmailUser, as they may be notified about it and return to the wiki.