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(a)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:
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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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