Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24184651-20141214061408/@comment-5708413-20141217005551

Reading over the thread, I don't know why the offer (from a non-admin) to write a speech was rejected. As long as you have participated in this wiki for quite a while, I believe you are free to do a speech. Naturally, the frequent editors will probably make a speech, as they want to show that they like the wiki. The casual editors will probably not want to do one, as they are casual and probably don't want to make a speech.

Tl;dr: I think anyone that wants to do a speech can do one.