Forum:Special groups with customizable rights

Hi everybody, I would like to let you know a little problem: in the wiki Nonciclopedia, the italian Uncyclopedia, the administrative work is so various that we had to create several projects to organize ourselves. Some of these projects are quite technical, like for example the one that controls all the images, put the right category and has to move images with bad names, like AOSNADOFADSPF8Hiubdasf9i7g887G.jpg to something that every human being can understand; or the group that has to adjust the pages with a low technical quality, like articles with a totally wrong layout, or without images, they control the quality of the most edited and famous articles, and sometimes it's quite a long work to eliminate everything wrong from a page, expecially if there are some edits in the middle of the work. Now it's always needed the help of an admin to do such little annoying things, like moving images or block pages, but it would be really useful if it could be possible to create customizable groups with a some of the admin rights, just like there is the rollback right for the users who control the last edits.

I think this would be really usefull for all the wikis with a quite substantial amount of articles and images like ours. It is possible to add this idea to the next update? --MFH 17:53, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


 * +1. While I don't know the internal workings of MediaWiki, I can see that this would be very useful for delegating to users who aren't completely trusted (or just don't need to be).  If the implementation isn't too involved, this is a great idea. --Jesdisciple (talk) 22:02, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Mmm there is already other options if the wiki has active bureocrats they can give and remove the sysops right (opose to the past) so they can give temporal sysops rights to specific users, the idea of Images not been able to move by users its for security reasons as sysops tend to be a more selected breed of people, and this chores could be program to be done every week or every 2 weeks or once a month, if the images are properly documented they just have to go and move them and edit the page to remove the movement info, or leave it there so the people in charge of the project finish the moving. Also this can be partially achieve with the use of templates and the infamous #ifexists parse function. At the end it depends on how creative they are and the human force available to them, a small wiki it will be more beneficial the idea expose in the original comment but a wiki that has the enough human power would be less of a problem --


 * It could be an idea, but we'll have to organize a day every week/2 weeks/month in which quite every trusted user is present, and we boureaucrats have to watch over them, and this will turn in a complete mess, imo. With special groups everyone can work when he wants, without a big risk of creating chaos. --MFH 18:17, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * +2. This is a really good idea. Admin has far too many rights once granted so we have to be very careful during promotion. There are many instances where Wikipedian admins abuse their rights. One of the problems is an admin is unable to be familiar with all the policies involved so they often misuse of abuse it. So it's great to grant rights which only concerns them. "Ban" and "Delete" rights are those that should be split. It's likely that "ban" is used as a way of punishment rather than a way to prevent further vandalism. --MyBrute Resource Center@Ronga 10:47, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, these things are technically possible in mediawiki, but their a pain to manage. As long you can CLEARLY define what rights you want the group to have (please, use Special:ListGroupRights and get the rights name), we can try to set something up. This is very VERY much a case-by-case basis, its not something most wikis will need (even if they want it). Get your admins/community together, and work out what you want this group to be able to do, and sent us a message via Special:Contact from your wiki, with a link to the page where it was all worked out and voted and stuff, and we'll see whats feasible to do. --Uberfuzzy 18:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Customizing protection levels
I always want to create a special group between autoconfirmed and sysop, perhaps called trusted group. And we have 3 protection levels, autoconfirmed, trusted and sysop. This way we can open up to more restricted pages to people which stay in the wiki long enough that it's unlikely we will vandalize the page.

Do you think it's technically possible? --MyBrute Resource Center@Ronga 10:47, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * You have not tell what rights you are interested to give to that group... so wikia can't answer if it is technically possible or not, also read uberfuzzy answer he has clear detail instructions on what you have to do --
 * Unfortunately, since 1.14, custom protection levels are harder to do. They also are not something I think are worth trying to do at Wikia (possibly at all). Protection should not be used that often, wikis are meant to be open for editing. You should be more trusting of users from the start. Dont overprotect and make people "earn" more access. --Uberfuzzy 20:15, 14 May 2009 (UTC)