I wrote:
I've made myself mailing list owner of mediawiki-l and wikitech-l temporarily, since I don't think Brion is interested in moderating either of them anymore.
But it's a relatively simple task, and it seems to me that it could be done by someone with more spare time and less awesome hacking skills ;)
Three people applied. After conferring some people on IRC, I chose Huib Laurens a.k.a. User:Abigor for the job.
Big thanks to Huib for taking this on.
-- Tim Starling