User:Contributor2020/Proposal Sandbox/Separating roles
The administrators in commons have many privileges and work to do. From answering and closing deletion requests to blocking people to delete file to everything. And we have only 200 of them? This depicts the load on them and no decrease in the commons backlog. Deletion request old like 1 year which are obvious are not being closed. And if non-admins close them, they will immediately take action on us(who are non-admins and non favorites of them). I think this type of centralizing is wrong.
My Proposal- to bifurcate administrator role into some 2 or three.
What does this mean- Role 1- Deletion administrators will have the privilege to
- Delete and undelete images and other uploaded files, and to view and restore deleted versions.
- Delete and undelete pages, and to view and restore deleted revisions
- Renaming files
- Send a message to multiple users at once
- Delete and undelete specific log entries and revisions of pages
- Merge the history of pages
- Use higher limits in API queries;
Basically things related to deleting and undeleting and renaming.
Role 2- Community Adminstrator will have the privilege to
- Block and unblock users, individual IP addresses and IP address ranges
- Protect and unprotect pages, and to edit Community admin-protected pages
- Edit less-restricted interface messages
- Add and remove usergroups
- View deleted versions
- Use higher limits in API queries
Basically things related to community things such as handling and having the power to take action in COM:AN and reviewing COM:RFR and COM:LRR.
Role 3- Abuse Filter Administrators will have the privilege to modify abuse filters, not create redirects from source pages when moving pages and import pages from other wikis
Why- If we bifurcate like this, one set of people will focus on one particular topic and will heavily help reducing commons backlog .Also, 1 user can have only 1 role of the bifurcation, so that the reason of making this thing will be intact.
Please, please consider this issue and make it into action as soon as you can.
What problems are given by users in discussion
[edit]- A common administrator
- Uploading copyvios and needs to be blocked- who to be reached