Proposal Archive
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Date Resolved: July 14, 2014
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Introduction
Hi all!
As you are aware, we are undergoing a massive cleanup process with discussions occurring daily for key changes. This includes changing the formatting of articles to other tedious changes such as changing the CTab for One appearance characters to {{CTab-once}}
. Some of these changes to articles do lead to the flooding of Recent Changes and Recent Wiki Activity. Similarly, AMK's Announcements scheme also flooded recent changes earlier today (through no fault of his own).This makes other edits not easily visible thus we may miss vandalism for example. So, the proposal:
Proposal
I propose that Bureaucrats are given the privilege to issue Bot rights to certain users. This would be a TEMPORARY measure and would be issued if they planned to do mass editing - eg, categorising images.
What does the "Bot" right do?
Just like the Bot group, edits from said user would be hidden from Recent Changes and Recent Wiki Activity thus not flooding them. This would enable other one-off or ordinary edits to be seen more easily. This right would be removed once the period of mass editing is complete.
Process
The process would be that users would ask a bureaucrat for the bot rights if they were planning on performing mass edits. The user would have to provide good reasons and the rights would be removed once the editing session has ended. Bear in mind users would have to be trusted and be an Admin/Bureaucrat to receive the bot right. This is because these edits will not be visible by default so we must trust these edits are good faith.
This right would be issued sparingly, and we would always first look at the possibility of using an automated bot to perform the tasks first.
Conclusion
If successful, I would put a request in to Wikia Staff to enable the right for Bureaucrats. This right would be incredibly useful for cleanup purposes and would be great for performing tedious tasks which would otherwise flood Recent Changes.
This discussion will end on July 13, 2014 and 12:00AM UTC.
Do leave any questions you have about this. Thanks! :) --Spongebob456 talk 14:36, July 6, 2014 (UTC)
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Discussion
Support
Support - -I don't see why not. Would eliminate a lot of clutter.
Auron May the odds be ever in your favor! 02:38,8/23/2015
Support - - per proposal. --Spongebob456 talk 14:36, July 6, 2014 (UTC)
Weak Support - Sure... sounds good. Pretzel 📪 🔎 15:20, July 6, 2014 (UTC)
Support - I may need a bot. 15:24,7/6/2014 Muchacha (W•C)OVERTIME?!!!
- Hey, you may have misunderstood things. You would receieve a bot flag temporarily while you make mass edits. You won't receive an extra bot account. --Spongebob456 talk 15:44, July 6, 2014 (UTC)
Support - SpongeyTube Message Wall My Contributions 12:01,7/7/14
Support - AW10 Talk Contribs E-Mail 16:55,7/6/2014
Support - Nicko756 (M•C•E) Sign! 17:01, July 6, 2014 (UTC)
Support - sounds good. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 18:23, July 6, 2014 (UTC)
Support - Considering the fact I try lengthen articles and make them more tidy, I might need a bot flag.Spike the Dragon (talk) 13:32, July 14, 2014 (UTC)
- Whilst your idea is good, this would only be for tedious tasks which could only be done manually. --Spongebob456 talk 18:27, July 14, 2014 (UTC)
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