Thread:Openpilotcc3d/@comment-34819558-20180409153246/@comment-30076690-20180409161231

In JAN's case he was just jumped to Admin because he was an active and reliable contributor who did a LOT of work, probably in part to give him the ability to edit parts of the wiki only admins can edit (like the CSS and nav pages). So, that's another purpose of admins.