On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:25:33 +0100, James R. Johnson modean52@comcast.net wrote:
Hello all,
From previous e-mails, I was reading about other levels of useraccess, and was thinking.could we create a page wherein a current administrator can give two or three extra rights to a user? Say, the user Jibberjabber wants to give JibberJunior the ability to block users, and protect/unprotect, and for only a week's time? Sounds somewhat like what the list was discussing.
Hi, As a lurker on the developer side of things (I hesitate to claim much of a contribution, beyond taking part in the odd design discussion), I can say with some certainty that this is almost, but not quite, what the current "User & Group Rights" design does in fact allow. The current implementation, which is more-or-less working in the development branch, is described at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_levels
Adding 2 specific abilities to 1 specific user is already possible, albeit with the extra step of creating a "group" to assign these rights and this user to (if there isn't already a group containing those rights, that is). Taking it away is also possible, so assuming Jibberjabber remembers to do it a week later, what you say is perfectly doable. *Automatically* revoking rights is something that hasn't been developed yet [AFAIK], but I'm sure as people come up with ways they want to use the new system, that kind of thing can be added on fairly easily.