Aryeh Gregor wrote: > We could also try to work out ways to make adminship less important. > If protection, blocking, and deletion could be made less necessary and > important in day-to-day editing, that would reduce the importance of > admins and reduce the difference between established and new > contributors. You could often make do with much "softer" versions of > these three things, which could be given out much more liberally. > > For instance, to replace blocking, you could have a system whereby any > reasonably established editor (> X edits/Y days) can place another > editor or IP address in moderation, so that their edits have to be > approved before going live, in Flagged Revs style. As with blocking, > any established editor could also reverse such a block. Abuse would > thus be easily reversed and fairly harmless (since the edits could go > through automatically when it's lifted, barring conflicts). Sysops > would only be necessary if people with established accounts abuse > their rights. > > Likewise, most deletion doesn't really need to make anything private. > Reasonably established editors could be given the right to soft-delete > a page such that any other such editor could read or undelete it. > This would be fine for the vast majority of deletions, like vanity > pages and spam. Sysops would only have to get involved for copyright > infringement, privacy issues, and so on. > > As for protection, we already have Flagged Revs. Lower levels of > flagging should be imposable by people other than sysops, and since > those largely supersede semiprotection, sysops would again only be > needed to adjudicate disputes between established editors (like > full-protecting an edit-warred page). Obviously, all these rights > would be revocable by sysops in the event of abuse.
There's an extension to 'delete' pages by blanking. I find that approach much more wiki. We should also work on allowing more protection levels. Fixing problems with the "if you can protect, you can edit anything" behavior and such. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
