Global rights
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The following is a proposed Wikimedia project, policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption (which is not determined by counting votes). References or links to this page should not describe it as "policy". |
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This page in a nutshell: New global rights will be established with the approval of the Wikimedia community, and projects that wish to may opt out. The use of global rights is controlled by local project policy, and abuse will result in the immediate removal of the tool. |
The purpose of this policy is to outline the process for proposing and implementing new global user rights, the principles underlying the use of these rights, and the restrictions upon their use that apply to all new and current user rights not defined in Foundation policy (i.e. steward).
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[edit] Principles of global rights
The principle of global user rights on Wikimedia Foundation projects is that they are established to provide functionality that is absent from local projects. Global rights are not intended to supercede rights on local projects, and all global rights must be used in accord with local policies governing such use. In the absence of a specific global user rights policy on a local project the local project policy for the use of the equivalent local right should be considered binding. If the user exercising a global user right is unaware of the local policy, or unable to read the policy because of a language barrier, that user should be aware that violating the local policies will result in the removal of the global right.
[edit] Proposing new rights
All proposals for new or significantly altered global user rights must be publicized and discussed in such a way and over a period of time that allows members of all Wikimedia Foundation projects to participate. At a minimum this should include notices on the Village Pump (or equivalent) of all projects, and preferably watchlist notices (or sitenotices) for all major proposals.
[edit] Abuse of global rights
Any abuse of a global user right will result in the immediate removal of that right. Abuse is the willful violation of a local or global policy, or consistent violation of local or global policies through ignorance or an inability (through a language barrier) to understand the local policies. Abuse of global rights should be reported immediately to Wikimedia stewards via: stewards-l
lists.wikimedia.org.
[edit] Assignment of global rights
The assignment of global rights will be made based upon criteria set out on the global policy governing the use of each specific global right. The individual global rights' policies should take into account the level of trust required and the methods for establishing that these requirements have been met.
[edit] Opting out (or in) of global rights
As a requirement for the implementation of a global right each project will have the technical ability to opt out of either all rights or any specific global right or rights group. This same end may be accomplished by requiring projects to opt-in to all or specific global rights. The opt out process will be initiated by local projects following local processes for achieving a policy consensus.
[edit] List of global rights and policies
- In policy
- Stewards (policy)
- Ombudsmen commission (policy)
- Global rollback (proposal)
- Staff (proposal)
- Sysadmins (proposal)
- Global sysops (proposal)
- In proposal
- Global deleted image review (proposal) (gained consensus)
| User groups | |
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| Local: | blocked user – unregistered user – newly-registered user – registered user – bot – administrator – bureaucrat – oversight – checkuser – IP block exempt – Importer |
| Global: | locked account – unified account – bot – rollbacker – abuse filter editor – interface editor – new wiki importers – sysop – ombudsman – founder – staff – system administrator – steward |
