Thread:Roads/@comment-3578757-20120428183026/@comment-3235402-20120501124508

No, the admins find an exceptional user who has good judgement, a good attitude, and knows not to abuse his/her new rights. But we have a lot of admins now, so we won't be making any new ones for a while.

Some wikis make admins based on the user's edits, but that's not good, since you can make 100,000 edits, but have the worst judgement and a really bad attitude. And yet someone might have very few edits, but have experience as an admin (or something) on another wiki. They might get promoted. Might.

Though that doesn't mean you can use adminship on one wiki to worm your way into it on others.