User blog comment:TheSlicer/VERY IMPORTANT/@comment-1372439-20100713155113

How many edits you've made does not matter for becoming a sysop, the only thing that matters about becoming a sysop is qualities: You need to be active, to patrol the recent changes, to check if anyone vandalises, to block people, and not to forget: maintain the wiki. That's the matter for becoming a sysop...