MozillaWiki:News/2014-10/Changes to user group rights: Difference between revisions

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'''Planned release date: 9 October 2014'''

Next week we will roll out a significant change to user groups and user rights. Read on for details.

Briefly: All registered users will have additional, useful privileges such as the ability to move pages and most users who currently belong to bureaucrat or sysop groups will be removed from those groups.

To ensure that MozillaWiki is curated and maintain efficiently, we need a coherent process for organizing users and groups.  

Prior to now there has been no process. Users who wanted access to additional features requested they be added to user groups and those requests were granted without a vetting processes. Additionally, features normally available to regular users such as move, were not available to them on MozillaWiki.

As such, many, many users belong to bureaucrat and sysop groups unnecessarily. These groups have powerful privileges that should be granted to users who understand those privileges and who commit to mindful, regular administration of the wiki.

* Once users have made 10 edits, they will be "autoconfirmed" and able to move pages, delete pages, rollback edits, and upload files.

* Bureaucrats will have the ability to delete pages, block users, patrol pages and rollback edits.  

* Administrators (sysops) will have the ability protect pages, delete (hide) revisions, import pages, edit semiprotected pages, and edit the user interface.

For a complete list of the new group rights that will be rolled out, view this page on our dev instance of MozillaWiki:<br />[https://wiki-dev.allizom.org/Special:ListGroupRights https://wiki-dev.allizom.org/Special:ListGroupRights]

You can log into the dev MozillaWiki. The same username and password you use on MozillaWiki should work unless you've changed it within that past month.

=== How can I request to be added to a user group such as Bureaucrat, Administrators (sysop), etc.? ===

If your work requires that you have access to the rights of one of these groups, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Websites&component=wiki.mozilla.org file a bug] to request that you be added. In the bug, please include your MozillaWiki username, which rights you need and why.

You can stop by #wiki on irc.mozilla.org ([http://chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.mozilla.org&channel=#wiki webchat]) or email tools-wiki@lists.mozilla.org.

Page protection should be applied to pages that have be subjected to repeated vandalism, and on pages for which vandalism would unusually disruptive (e.g. on highly visited pages).  

Page protection should not be used to enforce an approval process for editing content.

If you are concerned about misinformed edits to pages, you should add pages you care about to your watchlist. Anytime someone edits a page on your watchlist, you'll receive an email notifying you of the change. This will give you an opportunity to review the change and roll it back or edit as necessary. Additionally, you can use the email user feature to communicate with whoever made the edit.

If you simply have questions, you are welcome to ask in #wiki on irc.mozilla.org ([http://chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.mozilla.org&channel=#wiki webchat]).