Forum:New Right

Hello. I have noticed that for the last few weeks we have been having an admin shortage. We need more users deleting spam, and helping the wiki stay clean. My suggestion (So that we don't have an admin overflow again) is that we create a new right (Many wikis do this), called "AVT" which stands for "Anti-Vandalism Team". It will not have all of the abilities as administrators, but it will have just enough to fight spam. They still have to answer to administrators. If this passes, the administrators will decide 3 trusted active users to become an AVT. All AVTs will be chosen by admins, and most of the time there will be no AVT promotions. Feel free to suggest changes to the rights list in the comments section. -- seahorseruler | Talk  (EditCount) Yoshi! 19:52, December 12, 2009 (UTC)

Rights included:
 * Delete Pages
 * Undelete a page (undelete)
 * Permission for deleting comments on Blog Articles (blog-comments-delete)
 * Perform captcha triggering actions without having to go through the captcha (This allows you to not be limited to doing things such as moving too many pages, ect.)
 * Edit semi-protected pages
 * Edit other users' CSS and JS files
 * Mark others' edits as patrolled
 * Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
 * Move files (movefile)
 * Move pages (move)
 * Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
 * Permission for editing Blog Articles (blog-articles-edit)
 * Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)\
 * Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
 * Upload files (upload)
 * View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)

They will NOT be able to:
 * Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
 * Import pages from other wikis (import)
 * View report of used special tags (tagsreport)
 * Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
 * Block other users from editing (block)
 * Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
 * Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
 * Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
 * Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
 * Permission for editing Blog Articles (blog-articles-edit)
 * Permission for toggling comments on Blog Articles (blog-comments-toggle)
 * Set the default skin (setadminskin)
 * Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
 * newwikibuilder (newwikibuilder)

= Section 2 (Admin Change) = Administrators will have a rights change (If passed by vote). They will be able to:
 * Add Groups: Rollback, AVT
 * Remove Groups: Rollback, AVT

This will be changed so that we can keep out crat level low. This is also so that they dont have to becomee a crat and be un-demotable by other crats. It will also help so that any troublemaking AVTs can be demoted quicker (Incase the 2 crats are not online)

= Votes for entire change =

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 * -- seahorseruler | Talk  (EditCount) Yoshi! 19:52, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Totally! Great idea Sea!

Comments

 * This will help fight spam. -- seahorseruler | Talk  (EditCount) Yoshi! 19:52, December 12, 2009 (UTC)