Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-10473115-20150707192350

Prompted by THIS discussion, I propose few changes to Recent changes patrol which is currently left to admins only. That's just too much work so it has been left unused. We should make enough users as members of Recent changes patrol to be able to patrol every edit. That could be done by granting rollback user rights to all our most active editors and giving them opportunity to help on patrol. It would also mark their edits automatically patrolled. That alone would help to find edits of new users for reviewing with no downside whatsoever.

But to help the community even more, I suggest that we acknowledge the members of Recent changes patrol with a special badge or a special username colour or whatever is technically possible and try to make them feel proud of that. Even to encourage them to helping new members and enforcing our policies. That would lessen the workload of admins and would lead to our most active editors to take the integrity of the whole database closer to heart. It would also hopefully lead to more discussion between our active editors and would give them a motivation to keep informed about our policies. I think that now many of our biggest contributors just do their own thing without discussing enough which leads to inefficiency and a chaotic category structure. And lastly, seeing them interacting with others, especially with new members, would help us determining who could be trusted with admin rights. 