[Foundation-l] Global rollback users

[Milos Rancic]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard
<pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stewards can now create and edit global groups[1]. Users assigned to
> these groups will have the groups' rights on all public Wikimedia
> wikis. For example, a user in the 'global rollback' group could use
> the 'rollback' feature on all Wikimedia wikis. However, stewards will
> not create or assign these groups without community consensus.
>
> I propose the creation of a global rollback group. This would be very
> useful for members of the small wiki monitoring team[2] and other
> users involved in multiple-wiki countervandalism. We will also need
> objective criteria for its assignment; I suggest elected administrator
> access on at least one public Wikimedia wiki, and evidence of activity
> in multiple-wiki countervandalism (like links to contributions on
> multiple wikis).

I think that Pedro's approach is better: those users should get right
to delete page (as well to undelete if they make a mistake; or it is
not necessary?), too. Vandals and spammers are making new pages, too
and those pages should be deleted.