On Jan 3, 2008 7:13 PM, doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
Old hands will remember the perennial proposal to grant non-admins rollback facilities. We polled on this for 6 months in 2006, 500 people voiced an opinion and we got no consensus.
Well, it's back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non_administrator_rollback
ZOMG drama indeed.... but as to the substance of this proposal, I thought that particular perennial proposal more or less went away when the "undo" button was instituted on diffs? Hmm, apparently not.
As far as I can tell, the differences between rollback and undo are that a) rollback shows up in the page history and user contribution histories as well as diffs; b) rollback doesn't require you to hit "save" a second time; c) rollback is easier to make mistakes with because you can undo more than one diff at a time (i.e. everything by an author). Am I missing anything?
-- phoebe