[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Requests for rollback

Tue Jun 28 20:28:05 UTC 2005

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Hi all,

I didn't realise that MediaWiki 1.5 was so close to being introduced,
otherwise I wouldn't have come up with my previous proposal, mentoring
for admins, quite so quickly as I did!

As unfortunately my proposal is not too popular, I have come up with a
new one titled "Requests for rollback", taking advantage of the
"privilege separation" available in MediaWiki 1.5.

In a few words, it's a system like RfA but just granting rollback rather
than all admin powers

This proposal is described as how I imagine it would be implemented at:
 --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Talrias/Requests_for_rollback

My reasoning behind creating this proposal is principally due to the
following:

    * Useful for those who do not wish to be nominated on WP:RFA, either
because they do not desire admin powers or because they would not be
confident with them.
    * More people being able to quickly deal with vandalism is by no
means a bad thing.
    * It devolves power to the community.

I accept that some might say that is an unnecessary addition to
Wikipedia, duplicating requests for adminship, but I believe that people
who want to contribute to Wikipedia but do not wish to become
full-fledged admins will benefit from the times when rollback can be used.

I'd be interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this.

Chris

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Chris Jenkinson
chris at starglade.org
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