[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Requests for rollback

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Chris Jenkinson chris(a)starglade.org