On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:16:07PM +1000, Nick Jenkins wrote:
Something that seems a bit strange to me is rollback. The current situation I believe is that "Admins have a handy 'rollback' feature which allows them to instant-revert changes from a user's contributions page".
Sounds great, useful, and sensible. Everything apart from the "admins only bit". Why stop at admins? Me personally, I'm not a wikipedia admin (and currently the idea of yet another system that I'm an admin of in some way holds zero appeal), but the ability to quickly undo vandalism is useful, and could be given to far more users and be a big net win for vandalism control. The whole "history -> click on last edit minus one -> click edit -> type out 'revert' -> click save" cycle gets very tedious and repetitive after a while.
Snipping your rant for a moment, the reason that rollback is protected (more than other things) is that in the stream of wikidom, rollback is about the only thing which can't be... rolled back.
Perhaps that's Captain Obvious, reporting for duty, and that's why no one mentioned it, but...
Cheers, -- jra