Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-10473115-20150707192350/@comment-10473115-20150729225819

Reverting can be done with editing and saving an old revision but with using a rollback option it's marked as minor without edit summary. That's why it's meant to be used only as a tool to clean up vandalism. So you're right that if we would give out that user privilege, its purpose should be explained and preferably documented to a help page. I'm starting to think that if someone isn't enthusiastic about introducing Recent changes patrol group, we shouldn't do it. It would need some work anyway.

I'll explain why I don't feel that it's necessary after all. My motivation for proposing this change came purely from the problems with edits of new users. That discussion was moving to a direction where we would start to protect pages from editing for the lack of peer review. Some pages are already protected because that issue is still unsolved. I strongly disagree with that kind of protection and as an option, proposed Recent changes patrol to help with edit reviews. However, after that I'm learnt that there are two related user rights, patrol (to patrol other's edits) and autopatrol (own edits marked as patrolled). If we're going to be very selective with giving rights, it's not the best option to find edits of new users. We have many bot-like editors and it would be lot of work to patrol all those edits. That's why it would be better option to give just autopatrol rights to those users since there absolutely isn't any downside for that. It would just remove the red exclamation mark from their edits and that would help to find edits of new users. Because it would be quite a work for b-crats to promote everyone manually, it's better to create some kind of auto-promoted user class. And if it's technically impossible or the company don't want to create it for us, we should just add autopatrol to Autoconfirmed users group. Maybe even that would be enough to pinpoint edits of new users.