On 1/25/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Ryan Delaney wrote:
First off, thank you for a very thoughtful and polite email. At the risk
of
taking this off-topic, I would like to address one point you made at the
end
with a quick point:
On 1/25/06, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
Another - and better - solution, however, is to grant the rollback privilege to good contributors who are not admins. This would make the jobs of RC patrollers much easier - and will have the knock-on effect of lowering the amount of complaints the Foundation gets. The Foundation agrees that this is a great solution to the big problem we face. There is a poll to gauge community consensus on the issue: -->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback_privileges/Poll
While I support this idea (and I would even approve of a measure where
the
software automatically granted rollback to all users after they passed a certain number of edits), this can also be accomplished with godmode
light.
I suggest that more non-admin vandal patrollers familiarise themselves
with
this and other powerful monobook.js scripts.
The page notes that this and others exist; however these place considerable load on the servers and often break as soon as some part of Mediawiki changes.
Not to mention there are plenty of editors who just plain can't get godmode light to work for them at all.
-- I'm not stupid, just selectively ignorant.