Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-12362668-20140514221837/@comment-9605025-20140516225104

Well, like I said before, I don't really know any of the candidates well. However, without neccissarily implying that the following apply to them, I have noticed a few things in the past.

1) It depends on the type of contribution. Those who are frequent but mainly on forums/chat are less likely to want/be able to do other things such as actual wiki management.

2) It depends on how long they have been on the wiki. It takes time to get a handle on how things work. No matter how well intentioned, newer members generally don't do as well of a job simply because they are less familliar with the wiki.

Again, I am not saying these things apply to the current situation but they are things I have noticed in the past.

As The13thPrime already said, there are no set criteria. Originally DinoKev, the wiki founder, did it entirely by vote. However, DinoKev never announced the vote threshold for accepting a new admin. Furthermore, once DinoKev began to be on less frequently, other bureaucrats (mainly Prescoper) started adding admins without any vote at all.

In short, the whole process is not really standardized. Although, with points 1 and 2 above, I don't think it would neccissarily be an overkill to make more than one an admin.