Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4257955-20160201180609/@comment-4257955-20160202060624

Yes, I don't like Wikia's bungling here, and I wouldn't say that bit is fair either, but we simply can't deviate from the system the community and admins have voted to be a mainstay of our rights-acquisition system. I recognize this is a weird situation, but if we let you have a trial run, then there's suddenly precedent that other users could say that they deserve temporary rights for people to "evaluate" them. Let people evaluate you through your behavior on chat–they can determine if you would be trustworthy with mod rights or not.

You should most certainly try for an RfR and let the community vote for you there if you feel they've seen your merits on chat by being a productive and policy-following member.