[WikiEN-l] Thoughts on admin-only IRC channels and RC patrol

Wed Jan 25 13:44:04 UTC 2006

Ryan Delaney wrote:
> First off, thank you for a very thoughtful and polite email. At the risk of
> taking this off-topic, I would like to address one point you made at the end
> with a quick point:
> 
> On 1/25/06, Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org> wrote:
> 
>>Another - and better - solution, however, is to grant the rollback
>>privilege to good contributors who are not admins. This would make the
>>jobs of RC patrollers much easier - and will have the knock-on effect of
>>lowering the amount of complaints the Foundation gets. The Foundation
>>agrees that this is a great solution to the big problem we face. There
>>is a poll to gauge community consensus on the issue:
>>  -->
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback_privileges/Poll
>>
> 
> 
> While I support this idea (and I would even approve of a measure where the
> software automatically granted rollback to all users after they passed a
> certain number of edits), this can also be accomplished with godmode light.
> I suggest that more non-admin vandal patrollers familiarise themselves with
> this and other powerful monobook.js scripts.
> 

The page notes that this and others exist; however these place
considerable load on the servers and often break as soon as some part of
Mediawiki changes.

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