I don't believe that it is necessary. A rollback button is useful, but I don't see why it is worth a "Requests for Rollback" to get it. If a user does RC patrol and wants the aid of rollback (ie, 'the mop'), then they probably would prefer full admin powers in order to be able to block vandals, and so on. Being an admin doesn't have many set, 'must do' responsibilities - RC patrollers can happily become admins without further hassles, if they want to keep out of Wikipolitics.
Most people who want rollback wouldn't mind the other functionality of adminship. A Requests for Rollback feature would be unnecessary. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Jenkinson" chris@starglade.org To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 9:28 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Proposal: Requests for rollback
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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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