I think this is an excellent idea.
I am not an admin, and do not want to be an admin at this time.
I would be interested in having the rollback feature available to me,
and I think it would lead to me doing at least a little more
counter-vandalism work.
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Michael Turley
User:Unfocused
On 6/28/05, Chris Jenkinson
chris@starglade.org wrote:
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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
>
> - --
> Chris Jenkinson
> chris@starglade.org
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