On 1-Mar-09, at 3:26 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:15 PM, ChrisiPK <[email protected]> wrote: >> there is a discussion going on on Commons about a rollback policy. >> This >> involves deciding how users should be given this permission. We have >> been discussing autopromotion, but Andrew told us on IRC that he >> thinks >> it's not possible to revoke autopromoted rights. Revoking rollback >> permission is very important to take care of >> edit-warring/mass-rollbacking troublemakers, so we don't want to >> surrender this possibility. Can anyone comment on this, is it >> effectively impossible to revoke automatically given rights? > > It would be possible, although kind of hackish. The procedure would > be to create a "norollback" group that can be manually granted and > revoked, then make the autopromote criteria for rollback require that > the user not be in the "norollback" group. Possibly a nicer way of > doing this would be good, but it should be good enough for now. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Or it can be done like FlaggedRevs did with the Editor group. Techman224 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
