Global rollback

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Global rollbackers policy & information

Shortcut: GR This page outlines the standards and guidelines related to the use of the global rollback right and other user rights assigned to the global rollbacker 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, providing evidence of this.

[edit] Guidelines

Use of rollback is primarily governed by local policy when it exists.

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.

[edit] Userrights

Userrights currently assigned to the rollbacker global group

N	Right	Description	Notes
1	autoconfirmed	editing of semi-protected pages	normally part of the autoconfirmed usergroup
2	skipcaptcha	bypass captcha
3	move	move pages
4	rollback	quickly revert all edits of the last editor	governed by local policies where they exist, otherwise part of the sysop usergroup
5	noratelimit	not be subject to rate limits	normally part of the sysop and bot usergroups
6	suppressredirect	not to create redirect when moving a page
7	markbotedits	mark rolled-back edits as bot edits

[edit] Users with global rollback

• Stewards (list)
• Global rollbackers

User groups
Local:	blocked user – anonymous user – registered user – bot – administrator – bureaucrat – oversight – checkuser
Global:	Abuse filter editors – locked account – unified account – bots – rollback – ombudsmen – sysop – system administrators – staff – steward – founder