https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36812
--- Comment #6 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2012-05-15 09:21:01 UTC --- I understand what you're asking and I agree with the purpose, but I disagree about the methods you propose. Blatantly hiding users just because they have global rights is wrong in so many ways. It doesn't make sense. You make it sound like all stewards and global sysops speak only one language and don't know or care anything about other cultures. "Hide bots" should hide any user with the "bot" right. Whether that is a user in the local "bot" group, a user in the global group "bot" or a user in the group "automatic maniacs" on the maniac-wiki.example.org is irrelevant. Equally, you could hide experienced editors (such as sysops) for reasons such as "trying to discover active contributors that don't have special rights". But not to distinguish between users who do and don't have global rights, because such distinction cannot be implemented because it does not exist in that form. For instance, if a French contributor is active on fr.wikipedia.org and becomes a steward, should he not be shown on Special:ActiveUsers on fr.wikipedia just because he's a steward? That doesn't make sense. It could even work against you. If one is trying to discover new contributors that are active, that new contributor can also be someone with steward rights who is helping out for the first time on a small wiki that he speaks the language of. I'd say fix "Hide bots" to use the user right instead of the user group, so it includes global bots. And maybe fixup "Hide administrators" to include global sysops and stewards somehow. Although this is complicated since there is no "experienced-user" user right. Maybe use "autoconfirmed" as a way to detect them? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
