Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
Yes. But it doesn't do anything more than any user -- logged in or not -- can do with three extra clicks.
I as a regular user feel be punished. Or say it in different words: it's a sad story that I cannot help fixing bad edits without three extra clicks.
And I (as sysop@de) can say: I'm usually faster with the 4 click method -- because reverting implies looking at the diffs, and before I start to remember where I can find this ''rollback''-button, I start editing the diff, which is the page I currently view.
There are exacly 3 things a sysop can do of interest:
1.) Removing an arcicle / Restoring a removed arcticle: I think thats a good idea to restrict this function, and it is not very important. Every reason for a deletiion can be solved by a normal user much better by rewriting the article or extend it. It's for wikipedia a much better solution than deleting it. That leaves misspelled titles which should be removed - <irony>it's a great valuable add on for this supirior sysop class</irony>
2.) Editing protected pages. From 35327 pages in the german Wikipedia are exactly: total: 16 protected
4 log Files (File/remove) 5 new versions of MainPage (don't ask me why - I think that's a copy and paste error) 1 Homepage of a sysop (don't ask me why thats protected - I propose he found the button once;) 2 Pages in Wikipedia-Namespace (only one of it needs the protection IMHO) 4 Pages in acricle-namespace, one of it the MainPage.
Thats not very much, if you remove the ''don't ask me why's'', and the log files, I think you agree that's ok if they are protected, that's 5 (five) pages. What a revolt for 5 pages.
3.) Database Reuests. I need them as a developer, not for my sysop activity. And normaly there's ''developer'' as additional admin class, for this.
4.) Ban IP's. We both agree about the value of this feature ( 0, 00 EUR).
Sorry but I realy don't see why a normal user feels punished about that.