Robert Rohde wrote:
A summary, for those who are completely lost:
Recently developers added the ability for admins on the English Wikipedia to grant rollback rights to non-admin accounts.
This followed a large discussion and vote on enwiki in which ~2/3 of participants favored this feature
And there was me picturing a giant dinosaur rampaging through Wikipedia undoing random edits and terrorising admins. :-P
If I recall correctly you could get some Javascript included in your setup to perform the same function. This just levels the playing field a bit.
Brian McNeil