On Jan 11, 2008 11:54 AM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com 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
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It's also the case that only one option was offered in that particular poll "admins can grant/revoke rollback from others". A lot of the critics of the current behavior are pointing out issues with wheel warring (which is already happening) and additional bureaucratic overhead. Many of those people would prefer an rollback be granted automatically, like page moves.
Considering that rollback is just a faster version of edit, just as move is a faster (and less problem causing) version of edit+ copy and paste, that makes sense to me. I was sold when I saw a user since 2005 in good standing rejected because he used the wrong template to apply for rollback, and the wheel warring. :)