[Foundation-l] Rollbackersaurus attacks en.wiki

Brian McNeil brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org
Fri Jan 11 17:54:12 UTC 2008


Robert Rohde wrote:

>A summary, for those who are completely lost:

>Recently developers added the ability for admins on the English Wikipedia
>to
>grant rollback rights to non-admin accounts.
>
>This followed a large discussion and vote on enwiki in which ~2/3 of
>participants favored this feature

And there was me picturing a giant dinosaur rampaging through Wikipedia
undoing random edits and terrorising admins. :-P

If I recall correctly you could get some Javascript included in your setup
to perform the same function. This just levels the playing field a bit.


Brian McNeil





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