User blog comment:Toa Kopaka Nuva/State of the Wiki/ Adoption/@comment-183721-20200403080552/@comment-29670051-20200403130354

Admin on a wiki without a bureaucrat can actually adopt the wiki to gain these abilities. If you are planning on being more active, I suggest you do this. An admin adopting a wiki is much simpler than a regular user and it'll allow for you to promote the next admin if need be.

The last bureaucrat edited the wiki in 2013, so adoption is really the only option at this point for new mods as well.