Indeed, I misread Yann's email, and thought he was a Wikivoyage admin. Wikitravel admins would need to go through the normal community process if they want to become an admin on the WMF sites. Wikivoyage admins are being transferred across, if they opted-in to the data transfer. Sorry for the confusion!
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM, carlb carlb613@hotmail.com wrote:
Not quite... the opt-in was for moving the userlist from the German-hosted *.wikivoyage.org to the WMF-hosted *.wikivoyage.org only.