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Feature summary We would like the missing user group rights on the igwiki to be created: rollback, autopatrolled, and extended-confirmed.

Use case(s) Community members have identified the need for these user group rights, to help improve the project. The rollback right allows experienced editors to quickly undo disruptive edits or obvious vandalism. The autopatrolled right can be given to experienced and trusted editors so that their edits or new pages don’t always need to be manually checked. The extended-confirmed right will be given to editors with at least 500 edits and their account has existed for at least 30 days. This will help in restricting actions to more trusted users.

The addition or removal of each of user group should be allowed by sysop.

Local discussion and consensus: https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ṅkàtá_Wikipedia:Nz%E1%BB%8Dr_ogbako#Proposal_to_add_missing_user_group_rights

Benefits: To improve the quality of pages, reduce repeated manual checks of trusted users’ work, help fight vandalism more effectively, and encourage experienced editors by giving them more responsibility and tools.

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Hi @KingChristLike, would it be ok, if you agree, if we start just with AP and RB flags? Reading the stats, I believe that the extended-confirmed flag is not currently necessary on igwiki, considering the level of activity on wiki. Furthermore, this should be discussed more, because it would make sense to approve a protection level only for extend-confirmed users when adding this usergroup (otherwise that flag loses its meaning) and, always considering the statistics, this change would hardly be approved. Please read "Special groups on small wikis" for more info. If it's ok for you, I'll create a patch to add the AP and RB flags, both handled by sysops. If you disagree with me, we can ask any SysAdmin for a decision, just ping one of them here. Thanks for your understanding.

Superpes15 changed the subtype of this task from "Feature Request" to "Task".Oct 17 2025, 12:05 AM

Hi @Superpes15, I do think that the extended-confirmed flag is still necessary, (if not now, then later), as the activity level on wiki increases.

However, you can proceed with creating the patches to add the flags. Thanks.

Hi @Superpes15, I do think that the extended-confirmed flag is still necessary, (if not now, then later), as the activity level on wiki increases.

Yep, once the activity will increase in future, we can add this flag for sure! In the meantime I'll add AP and RB flags and imho you can handle very well with this 2 new flags :)

However, you can proceed with creating the patches to add the flags. Thanks.

@KingChristLike (and others) Do you want that rollbacker flag also includes 'autopatrolled' right, so a rollbacker doesn't need to stay also in the AP group?
Also, do you want other rights for rollbackers, apart from "rollback" (and maybe autropatrol)? For example, there are 'markbotedits' (so in case of multiple rollback you can mark the edit as bot edits), "patrol" (to mark other's edits as patrolled), and 'suppressredirect' (which allows to not create a redirect when moving a page).
Just for completeness, there is a right called 'patrolmarks', which allows to see the other's edits that need to be patrolled (but whit this flag you can't directly patrol the edit and this is already included into the 'patrol' right)!

@Superpes15: Yeah, including ‘autopatrolled’ in the rollbacker flag makes sense. And I think that the ‘markbotedits’, ‘patrol’ and ‘suppressredirect’ will be useful additions.
The ‘patrolmarks’ may not be necessary for rollbackers, as you said, ‘patrol’ rights already include the ability to patrol edits.

Change #1196921 had a related patch set uploaded (by Superpes15; author: Superpes15):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [igwiki] Create 'autopatrolled' and 'rollbacker' usergroups

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1196921

Change #1196921 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [igwiki] Create 'autopatrolled' and 'rollbacker' usergroups

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1196921

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-21T13:41:06Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1196921|[igwiki] Create 'autopatrolled' and 'rollbacker' usergroups (T407439)]], [[gerrit:1196930|Throttle exemption for Editathon by Wikimedistas en Cruce - 6/7 November 2025 (T407630)]], [[gerrit:1197004|[specieswiki] Enable USERLANGUAGE magic word (T406583)]], [[gerrit:1197614|[hsbwiktionary] Enable importing from enwiktionary (T407713

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-21T13:45:28Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy2002> superpes, lucaswerkmeister-wmde: Backport for [[gerrit:1196921|[igwiki] Create 'autopatrolled' and 'rollbacker' usergroups (T407439)]], [[gerrit:1196930|Throttle exemption for Editathon by Wikimedistas en Cruce - 6/7 November 2025 (T407630)]], [[gerrit:1197004|[specieswiki] Enable USERLANGUAGE magic word (T406583)]], [[gerrit:1197614|[hsbwiktionary] Enable importing from enwiktionary

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-21T13:53:00Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1196921|[igwiki] Create 'autopatrolled' and 'rollbacker' usergroups (T407439)]], [[gerrit:1196930|Throttle exemption for Editathon by Wikimedistas en Cruce - 6/7 November 2025 (T407630)]], [[gerrit:1197004|[specieswiki] Enable USERLANGUAGE magic word (T406583)]], [[gerrit:1197614|[hsbwiktionary] Enable importing from enwiktionary (T40771