Global rollback

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←Policies and guidelines

Global rollbackers policy & information

This page outlines the standards and guidelines related to the use of the global rollback right and other user rights assigned to the "global rollbackers" global user group.

Global rollback is a user group assigned by stewards to trusted users which lets them easily rollback edits that are blatantly counterproductive, like vandalism and nonsense, on all Wikimedia wikis.

For consideration, users must be demonstrably active in cross-wiki countervandalism or anti-spam activities (for example, as active members of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team) and make heavy use of revert on many wikis. They may request access on Steward requests/Global permissions, providing evidence of this.

Guidelines

Use of rollback is primarily governed by local policy where existing.

Generally, the rollback feature reverts the latest changes from a user to a particular page in one click. This tool exists primarily to simplify the reversion of malicious edits. Although it can theoretically be used to revert any change, it is often aggravating to the affected user if it is used to rollback a legitimate change. Users should avoid rolling back legitimate or questionable edits if at all possible, and the rollback feature should never be used in a revert war.

Userrights

Userrights currently assigned to the Global_rollback global group

N	Right	Description	Notes
1	autoconfirmed	Edit semi-protected pages	normally part of the autoconfirmed usergroup
2	skipcaptcha	Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA
3	move	Move pages
4	rollback	Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page	governed by local policies where they exist, otherwise part of the sysop usergroup
5	abusefilter-log-detail	View detailed abuse log entries
6	autoreviewrestore	Auto-review on rollback
7	autopatrol	Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
8	noratelimit	Not be affected by rate limits	normally part of the sysop and bot usergroups
9	suppressredirect	Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
10	markbotedits	Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits

Users with global rollback

• Stewards (list)
• List of Global rollbackers (including Global sysops (list) on request)

See also

• Global rollbackers: global permission • global groups (toolserver) • member list • group changelog
• Special global permissions