Global rollback

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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 roll back edits that are blatantly counterproductive, such as vandalism and nonsense, on all Wikimedia wikis .

For consideration, users must be demonstrably active in cross-wiki counter-vandalism 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.

Global rollbackers who have not contributed to any Wikimedia project for the past 2 years should have their global rollback rights removed for inactivity.

Guidelines

The use of rollback, and other bundled permissions for this group, are primarily governed by local policies where existing.

Global rollbackers are expected to be familiar and compliant with local policies where existing. In accordance with the global rights policy, any abuse of a global user right will result in the immediate removal of that right.

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 roll back 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.

Rights

Userrights currently assigned to the global-rollbacker global group

N	Right	Description	Notes
1	abusefilter-log	View the abuse log	normally part of the autoconfirmed usergroup
2	autoconfirmed	Not be affected by IP-based rate limits
3	editsemiprotected	Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
4	ipinfo	Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries
5	move	Move pages
6	movestable	Move pages with stable versions
7	skipcaptcha	Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA
8	abusefilter-log-detail	View detailed abuse log entries	governed by local policies where they exist, otherwise part of the sysop usergroup
9	autopatrol	Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
10	autoreviewrestore	Auto-review on rollback
11	checkuser-temporary-account	View IP addresses used by temporary accounts
12	oathauth-enable	Enable two-factor authentication
13	patrolmarks	View recent changes patrol marks
14	rollback	Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
15	suppressredirect	Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
16	markbotedits	Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits	normally part of the sysop and bot usergroups
17	noratelimit	Not be affected by rate limits

Local policies

• English Wikipedia – Global rights policy
• Simple English Wikipedia – Global rights policy
• Serbian Wikipedia – Корисничка права на глобалном нивоу (Serbian)
  • A note from a local administrator: This page on sr.wiki documents certain global procedures, so it's not intended to be locally voted on. However, its English contents were specified and then approved by the local community.
• English Wikibooks – Global rights policy
• English Wikinews – Global rights usage
• Bengali Wikipedia – বৈশ্বিক অধিকার নীতিমালা (Bangla)
• Japanese Wikipedia – グローバル巻き戻し者の方針 (Japanese)

Users with global rollback

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

See also

• Global rollbackers: global permission · global groups (toolforge) · member list · group changelog
• Global groups
• Timeline of all global rollbackers - Template:GlobalRollbackersChart